Quality of Teaching: Developing Teachers’ Skills to Improve Students Learning and Participation

This contribution presents two intersecting and complementary lines of re- search carried out by the T&LC of the University of Florence. The first concerns a survey aimed at investigating the opinions of academic staff with respect to perceived areas of and the design of teaching courses, teaching methodologies and the assessment of learning outcomes. The second is at a preliminary stage, and aims to investigate the role of students as agents of change, investing in their active, responsible and conscious participation in academic processes.