ICED engages in these activities:
- Advancing educational development through scholarship and research
- Improving the practice of educational development
- Supporting our Member Networks
- Reaching out to help new and emerging networks
- Sponsoring the International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD), a medium for debating and extending the theory and practice of educational development, in support of quality higher education.
- Partnering with a Member Network to host the biennial ICED conference to promote the sharing of research and beneficial practices globally.
- Supporting—through briefing, training and mentoring—educational developers who want to write for publication or referee and review for IJAD and for ICED Conference proposals.
- Helping members of our network organisations to access an international community for matters such as research information, mentors, tutors, and external examiners.
- Enabling meaningful exchanges of knowledge, experience, and resources at Council meetings and biennial conferences, in IJAD, and through the website, e-mail discussion list, and special interest groups.
- Advertising training and professional development events for individual educational developers, such as collaborative workshops and pre-conference workshops.
- Encouraging members to identify and share standards and models for educational development practice.
- Serving as a hub to provide access to advice, guidance, and consultancy from the international community of educational developers.
- Creating, supporting, and guiding collaborative projects across Member Networks and nations.
- Recognising leadership in educational development through the Spirit of ICED award.
- Cultivating a caring community of supportive colleagues and a “network of networks” through which members can exchange knowledge, experience, texts, and resources.
- Helping to promote local, national, and international events organised by Member Networks.
- Supporting Member Networks engaging with their ministries, national bodies, or allied organisations.
- Rotating opportunities across Member Networks to host the biennial conference and annual Council meeting to highlight local educational development.
- Rotating ICED Board membership across Member Networks and deliberately recruiting IJAD editorial team members from across the globe.
- Making IJAD widely accessible, offering a discount and the translation of abstracts.
- Maintaining a budget and a reserves policy to uphold its charitable purpose and aims.
- Providing a single contact point via an administrator to support ICED.
- Engaging with colleagues in countries where the need for educational development is becoming more recognised.
- Helping to nurture the formation and development of new and emerging educational development networks by offering expertise, sustainable models, guidance, and resources from Member Networks.
- Providing access via the website to organisational information from Member Networks and ICED to give ideas, insights, and examples about governance, policies, membership models, activities and events, and more.
- Connecting new and emerging network leaders with all Member Network representatives via ICED’s email list and contact list on the website.
- Encouraging new network leaders to attend Council as “observers” before seeking network membership and the ICED conference, particularly any sessions where they can seek advice on their network strategy.
- Seeking funding sources to provide financial support and sponsorship for emergent network leaders to attend ICED meetings and conferences.
