Cartography of good university teaching. A framework for research-based faculty development

Abstract

The cartographic language belongs to an applied science that is responsible for collecting, performing and analyzing measurements and data of regions of the Earth, to represent them graphically with different linear dimensions and maps. Applied to university teaching, it means framing teaching actions to have a shared framework that allows to make visible the complexity of the subject to deliberate, review, organize and improve. Professors from the universities of Zaragoza, Polytechnic of Valencia, the Basque Country and Cádiz have dedicated several years to this difficult task, to propose a framework for academic teaching development within the State Network of University Teaching (REDU). The stated aim of the book is to give an answer to the question of what good teaching in higher education means, based on existing research on the subject. They also want to offer a map that serves to know where we are and where we want to go in teacher training, quality policies and teacher professional development.