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Vikki Hill; Susan Orr; Emily Salines – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This article investigates the role of an academic development programme associated with the implementation of newly designed assessment criteria in the UK-based Arts University. The introduction of new assessment criteria was accompanied by a pan-university academic staff development intervention. In a small-scale qualitative study, we researched…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Criteria, Art Education, Faculty Development
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Cathryn Magno; Anna Becker; Elmina Kazimzade; Ulviyya Mikailova; Daniela Schädeli; Batjargal Batkhuyag; Brian Denman – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This article depicts the emergence of an intercultural learning community through an international research project on educational leadership. Drawing from partners' self-reflections collected and analyzed during the project, we engage with concepts including transformative leadership, practice architecture, and Northern/Western power and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach, Educational Development, International Cooperation
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Mandy McGrew; Esther Jordan; Carmen Skaggs – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This reflection examines the impact of a hybrid Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) mini-series developed through a partnership between a comprehensive public university's center for teaching and learning and its largest college. Longitudinal participant survey results indicate that this intervention was effectively designed, with broad…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disclosure, Instruction, Learning
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Ian M. Kinchin; Suzie Pugh – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This paper considers the process of "professional becoming" for an academic developer as a complex transition towards epistemological plurality. This is a necessary step to appreciate and support the lived experiences of teachers across the spectrum of academic disciplines. Viewed through an ecological lens, the complexity of the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Universities, Faculty Development
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Allyson Skene; Laura Winer; Erika Kustra – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This article explores potential uses, misuses, beneficiaries, and tensions of learning analytics in higher education. While those promoting and using learning analytics generally agree that ethical practice is imperative, and student privacy and rights are important, navigating the complex maze of ethical dilemmas can be challenging, particularly…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Higher Education, Ethics, Privacy
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Kimberley A. Grant; Muhammad Adil Arshad – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
In response to calls to revisit the engagement of students in academic development, the authors -- an educational development consultant and a graduate student -- share the findings of a nation-wide study which explored how Canadian teaching and learning centres (TLCs) partner with graduate students in academic development (AD). This paper…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Learner Engagement, Foreign Countries, Learning Resources Centers
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V. Kumar; A. Kaur; L. J. Sanderson – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Taking into consideration the unique relational position of convenors (Chairs) in PhD oral examinations, this qualitative study explores insights from 55 convenors at a research-intensive university in New Zealand into the ways academic staff developers can better prepare doctoral supervisors and examiners for oral examinations. One striking…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Verbal Tests, Degree Requirements, Administrators
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Martin Compton; Sally Alsford – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This study explores the experiences of international staff in Egypt and Trinidad who undertook a UK-based teaching development course provided by the London University who were validating and franchising the offshore courses they taught. Such transnational education (TNE) is a significant but under-researched area of Higher Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, College Faculty, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development
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Bushra Jaleel; Stephanie Horsley; Melanie-Anne Atkins – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
The concept of thriving in post-secondary education has largely been studied in the context of academic advising and student support services, with limited research that links thriving to pedagogical practices. This paper presents a conceptual model created using an integrative literature review to illustrate how instructional choices made during…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Higher Education, Curriculum Development
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Dewa Wardak; Elaine Huber; Sandris Zeivots – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Business education has had limited discussion on professional development for academics. Given the increasing focus on the quality of teaching and learning in higher education, we investigate how academics conceptualise professional development. This has important implications since one's conceptions of a phenomenon can influence subsequent…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Business Schools, College Faculty, Business Administration Education
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Lindsay Shaw; H. MacDougall; L. Goff; D. Ellis; E. Kustra; M. P. Law; L. Taylor – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Strategic documents are artifacts that can reveal evidence of an institution's teaching culture and, ideally, can influence how teaching is valued, rewarded, and resourced. This paper describes how an Institutional Teaching Culture framework based on six well-researched levers was applied to analyze strategic documents for indicators of teaching…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Planning, Strategic Planning, College Instruction
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Angela Daddow; Alison Owens; Georgia Clarkson; Vanessa Fredericks – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Academics are constantly undergoing identity shifts in response to globalisation, marketisation and the impact of technology on academic work. This study investigates the impact of a Graduate Certificate of Higher Education (GCHE) on academic identity development in an Australian University. GCHE graduates and their educators were interviewed to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Professional Identity, Neoliberalism
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N. Godbold; K. E. Matthews; D. Gannaway – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This study outlines an approach that captures the messy landscape of the learning opportunities on which teaching focused academics draw. The Activity Centred Analysis and Design framework was employed to analyse data from a focused ethnographic study of seven TFAs in a research-intensive university. The Activity Centred Analysis and Design…
Descriptors: Authentic Learning, Learning Analytics, Learning Processes, Instructional Design
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Jenny Lawrence; Lesley J. Morrell; Graham W. Scott – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
The programme leader is crucial to the success of a higher education provider's educational portfolio. However, programme leader development is under-researched and is too often conceptualised in a negative way, as the solution to a problem. Here we adopt a positive approach by undertaking an Appreciative Inquiry with programme leaders to…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Higher Education, Instructional Leadership, Knowledge Management
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Vincent Crone; Frans Prins; Christel Lutz; Irma Meijerman; Veronique Schutjens; Maarten van der Smagt; Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij; Niels Bovenschen; Manon Kluijtmans – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
In this paper, we describe the underlying mechanisms that both facilitate and limit the formation of successful educational leadership of participants of the 'Senior Fellow Programme': a professional development programme in conjunction with a career track leading up to a teaching-focused full professorship. Based on an analysis of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Educational Administration, Faculty Development, Career Development
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