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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Wuetherick, Brad; Ewert-Bauer, Tereigh – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
The question of whether neutrality is possible in academic development invites us to explore the particular place of academic development in our institutions and how academic development is positioned in our particular national and institutional environments. This paper, which reports on a small pilot study of how Canadian academic development is…
Descriptors: Expertise, Academic Achievement, Interdisciplinary Approach, Foreign Countries
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Holmes, Trevor; Manathunga, Catherine; Potter, Michael K.; Wuetherick, Brad – International Journal for Academic Development, 2012
This paper responds to the occasionally stated imperative in some contexts to be neutral as part of being an academic development unit (ADU). For over a decade at separate professional meetings of developers, two of the authors have heard the refrain that they need to be--or at least be perceived to be--"the Switzerland" of their campuses.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Science, Anthropology, Confidentiality
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Turner, Nancy; Wuetherick, Brad; Healey, Mick – International Journal for Academic Development, 2008
This paper explores the implications of the effective integration of research, teaching and learning for academic development through the lens of an international multi-institutional comparison of student perceptions of research and its impact on their learning environment. The study, with a sample of over 500 final-year undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship