REDU (Red Española de Docencia Universitaria) se complace en anunciar que el Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Zabalza ha sido galardonado con el prestigioso premio Spirit of ICED Award en reconocimiento a su destacada trayectoria en didáctica, formación docente, enseñanza y aprendizaje en educación superior, investigación educativa y desarrollo académico, tanto en el contexto nacional como internacional.
Los días 4-6 de junio de 2024 se celebró la ICED Conference 2024 en Nairobi (Kenia). El ICED Council, reunido dos días antes, aprobó otorgar el Spirit of ICED Award a Miguel A. Zabalza tras la nominación presentada por REDU. ICED notificó al Prof. Zabalza en un correo electrónico la decisión del ICED Council:
Dear Dr. Zabalza,
I am writing to let you know that you were recently nominated for the Spirit of ICED Award by REDU. The International Consortium for Educational Development (ICED) Council considered your nomination at its annual meeting earlier this week and endorsed your nomination. Congratulations on being awarded the Spirit of ICED!
The object of ICED is to advance education worldwide by promoting, sustaining, and increasing individual and collective knowledge and understanding of all aspects of educational development in higher education. ICED’s aims are to:
- Serve as a hub, networker, curator, and disseminator for educational development practitioners, researchers, and resources.
- Help new and existing Member Networks develop their capacity for educational development through the sharing of good theory, practice, problems, and solutions.
- Increase the number of partner organisations of ICED and help educational developers in countries or regions where no network organisations exist.
Award recipients are individuals or groups who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in educational development and made contributions towards advancing ICED’s object and aims in relation to the following criteria:
- Perceived opportunities for expanding the boundaries of educational development and acted to bring visions to reality.
- Used evidence to bravely challenge and improve existing educational development practice.
- Actively disseminated educational development practice and/or theory across boundaries.
- Provided a role model to educational developers.
Once again, warm congratulations, and sincere thanks for your long-standing and significant contributions to educational development.
With best wishes,
Dr. Donna Ellis
ICED President
La entrega del premio tuvo lugar durante la cena de gala y fue presentada por la presidenta del ICED, Donna Ellis, y aceptado por Mònica Feixas como representante de REDU. La entrega fue retransmitida en línea y los miembros de la Junta pudieron seguir en directo el emotivo acto.
REDU celebra este merecido reconocimiento y felicita al Prof. Dr. Miguel Ángel Zabalza por sus excepcionales contribuciones al campo de la educación superior.