The Network

The Network for Staff and Educational Development (NetSED) is a voluntary non-profit making international forum committed to improve teaching and training at all levels; and the quality of processes and products associated with these.  It provides a forum for networking institutions, associations, federations, groups and individuals, and their activities on staff training/development, and educational development, and thereby facilitates learning from each other.  It also focuses on higher education-industry interfaces, and corporate training and human resource development.  Special attention is given to how staff training and educational development can facilitate quality and innovations in educational, professional and corporate practices.  It provides a meeting place to staff and educational developers from educational institutions, industries, government training sectors and non-government organizations to discuss problems, and exchange ideas and good practices for mutual benefit.

Special consideration is given to the relationship between education and world of work, accreditation of experiential and workplace learning; application of emerging new technologies for education and training; development of new models of teaching, learning, training and evaluation.

NetSED is supported and guided by a core group of senior academics and administrators from universities, universities’ associations, professional organizations, distance teaching and multimedia organizations, and industrial associations, and corporate HRD managers.

OBJECTIVES

·       Provide a forum for discussion and dissemination of ideas and innovations in teaching, learning and training within the framework of staff and educational development.

·       Promote corporate training and provide a network for exchange of ideas on human resource development.

·       Organise conferences, seminars, workshops etc. on issues and themes related to educational development and staff development/training, with both national and international focus.

·       Provide on outlet for educational developers and staff developers to further their interests and innovations in this emerging area of activity and concern.

·       Promote awareness and exchange of ideas and skills in these areas through orientation and training programmes, meetings and publications.

·       Encourage research and development activities, and thereby promote professionalism among staff and educational developers.

·       Interact and liaise with national and international networks, associations, societies, and groups with related objectives and activities.

ACTIVITIES

·       Publication of scholarly journal, magazine, handbooks, and “staff and educational development series”.

·       Organisation of seminars, conferences workshops, symposia, colloquia on a varieties of themes related to staff and educational development.

·       Networking of services for institutions and individuals working for staff and educational development.

·       Collection and dissemination of ideas, innovations, practices and research on staff and educational development.

·       Support to members’ research and development projects on themes related to staff and educational development.

·       Maintenance of close contact and interaction with national and international organizations on staff and educational development.

PUBLICATIONS

NetSED is bringing out a refereed international quarterly journal “Staff and Educational Development International” which provides a forum for debate, discussion and exchange of ideas, theories, practices, and research on staff development, and educational development, and innovations and change in education and training.

An international editorial advisory board guides and provides directions to the editorial policy of the journal published by an international publisher from Delhi, India.  The priced journal is distributed all over the world, especially to colleges and universities, educational and staff development centers, HRD units in industries, distance teaching institutions and open universities, training units in government and private sectors, polytechnics and professional institutions, teacher training institutions, management institutions and the like.

The journal is abstracted Contents Pages in Educational Technology Abstracts (UK), Current Index to Journals in Education (Syracuse University, USA), and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (USA).