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Improving Teaching Quality and the Learning Organisation

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This study applied a learningorganisation framework to understand academicdepartments' efforts to improve teachingquality. The theoretical framework wasgenerated from literature on learningorganisations, organisations devoted tocontinuous improvement through continuouslearning. Research questions addressedrelationships among departments' vision,leadership, knowledge management,communication, learning culture, and teachingimprovement. Using survey data collected fromdepartment chairs, this study found a positiveassociation between learning organisationbehaviours and the improvement of teaching.

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    Sarah L. Collie

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Collie, S.L., Taylor, A.L. Improving Teaching Quality and the Learning Organisation. Tertiary Education and Management 10, 139–155 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:TEAM.0000023841.31495.6a

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