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Mårtensson, Katarina; Roxå, Torgny – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
This text discusses the professional development of academic developers. It is based on the authors' reflections and observations in the context of a semi-formal programme, "Strategic Academic Development," held for academic developers in different regions of the world. Most recently the programme participants were academic developers in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Roxå, Torgny; Marquis, Elizabeth – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
This article is situated in the context of an intensified discourse within which academic developers are being asked to provide evidence of impact, and argues that theoretical models currently used are imprecise and fail to capture the variation in outcomes from professional development activities. Through reference to previous research on how…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Thinking Skills
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Huang Hoon, Chng; Mighty, Joy; Roxå, Torgny; Deane Sorcinelli, Mary; DiPietro, Michele – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
What role does academic development have to play in responding to radical cultural shifts in the global landscape? Whose voices and identities are contributing to institutional change? This reflective essay encompasses the perspectives of the four international panellists in the opening plenary of the International Consortium for Educational…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Educational Change, Ideology, Organizational Culture
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McGrath, Cormac; Stenfors-Hayes, Terese; Roxå, Torgny; Bolander Laksov, Klara – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
This paper addresses a relatively new phenomenon in higher education, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and explores conceptions around this new and emerging development from the perspective of a number of stakeholders in the university. A phenomenographic approach is adopted. The study explores how different stakeholders at a university…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Higher Education, Stakeholders
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Roxå, Torgny; Mårtensson, Katarina – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
This text taps into an ongoing discussion about academic development. It challenges an image of academic development as precarious and liminal and explores academic development as powerful. Sources of power are described and put into the context of values, ideologies, and policies governing higher education of today. It is our hope that readers…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning)
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Roxå, Torgny; Mårtensson, Katarina – International Journal for Academic Development, 2015
This article contributes to knowledge about learning in workgroups, so called "microcultures" in higher education. It argues that socially constructed and institutionalised traditions, recurrent practices, and tacit assumptions in the various microcultures influence academic teachers towards certain behaviour. In line with this…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Subcultures, Communities of Practice, Workplace Learning
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Handal, Gunnar; Lycke, Kirsten Hofgaard; Mårtensson, Katarina; Roxå, Torgny; Skodvin, Arne; Solbrekke, Tone Dyrdal – International Journal for Academic Development, 2014
Academic developers (ADs) often participate in the implementation of programmes or reforms in higher education. Sometimes they agree with these and sometimes they disagree. This paper discusses possible agentic positions during a genuine policy implementation--the National Qualification Framework at a Norwegian university. Through reflexive…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Foreign Countries, Accountability, Program Development