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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
Warren J. Code; Ashley J. Welsh; E. Jane Maxwell – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
We summarize the experiences and outcomes for 'discipline-based education specialists' involved with a large-scale, 10-year initiative: the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia. A key aspect of the initiative was the hiring of these specialists into academic departments where they held graduate-level…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Change
Ruge, Gesa; Sch?nwetter, Dieter J.; McCormack, Coralie; Kennelly, Robert – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
This research investigates the value of teaching philosophies (TP) for today's academics and their institutions. It offers a new framework to enhance academic development, personal resilience, and institutional capacity building. Since the 1990s, TPs have been formalised as personally constructed and reflectively written statements of educational…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Capacity Building, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
'Accountable to Whom, for What, and through What Means': Educational Developers in the Audit Culture
Raffoul, Jessica; Skene, Allyson; Chittle, Laura; Kartolo, Arief – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
Higher education has faced increased pressure to prove its quality through 'economic efficiency' and 'value for money', thrusting institutions into what researchers call an 'audit culture'. This study explores whether and how the audit culture has impacted educational developers in Canadian post-secondary institutions. Results include a summary of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Development, Audits (Verification), Higher Education
Jade Roy; Laura Chittle; Elizabeth Ismail; Erika Kustra – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
Centres for teaching and learning (CTLs) often play a brokering and supporting role in student partnerships (SaP), but there is little research exploring partnerships between students and academic developers. Our study qualitatively examined whether students perceived themselves as partners within a CTL, even though this was not explicitly…
Descriptors: Education Service Centers, Partnerships in Education, Student Attitudes, Transfer of Training
Turner, Nancy K.; Healey, Mick; Bens, Susan – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Institutional approaches to curriculum development often privilege outcome over process. This paper explores the use of an adapted Change Academy approach, originally developed for teams from different institutions, to supporting teams from different disciplines within the same institution. The approach was evaluated through analysis of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum Development, Change Strategies, Educational Change
Boschman, Siscoe; Craig-Morton, Heather; McGlashan, Alexander; Schachtschneider, Carrie; Steele, Jodi; Weaver, Adam; Wilson, Mary – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
This article explores efforts to stimulate significant conversations through a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Community of Practice (CoP) amongst a diverse group of professors and professional staff in a College of Applied Arts and Technology in Ontario, Canada. Participants share their reflections on the formation of significant…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Communities of Practice
Bens, Susan; Kolomitro, Klodiana; Han, Andrea – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Educational developers play a critical role as change agents and facilitators of curriculum development initiatives. This reflection explores factors that enable and limit curriculum development initiatives as experienced by a group of educational developers working in different university contexts in Canada. By highlighting aspects of our…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, College Curriculum, Foreign Countries, Capacity Building
Taylor, Rebecca L.; Knorr, Kris; Ogrodnik, Michelle; Sinclair, Peter – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
Midterm student feedback is a common process in post-secondary institutions that can lead to enhanced teaching practices and thereby potentially to higher ratings of instructional skills in summative course evaluations. At McMaster University, midterm student feedback is called a 'Course Refinement' and includes consultation with educational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Feedback (Response), Student Evaluation
Ellis, Donna E.; Brown, Veronica M.; Tse, Crystal T. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
Educational developers need to assess the work of their Centres, from program participation and impact to underlying organizational processes. Various frameworks exist, but developers may feel unsure how to get started. We developed a planning model that offers a structured, systematic approach for developing comprehensive assessment systems that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Resource Centers, Educational Facilities, Faculty Development
Boman, Jennifer; Yeo, Michelle – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
Research in academic development more often articulates stories of success than of failure in our practice. Using a self-study methodology involving written reflections and analysis of recorded conversations, this article explores how two mid-career developers define and learn from feelings of failure in the context of group facilitation. Through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Failure, Facilitators (Individuals)
Kolomitro, Klodiana; Kenny, Natasha; Sheffield, Suzanne Le-May – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
There is a gap in research exploring stress, burnout, and well-being within the context of educational development. The purpose of this study was to examine the concepts of burnout and workplace well-being among educational developers across the international landscape. Thematic analysis from the survey responses (n = 210) revealed characteristics…
Descriptors: Burnout, Well Being, Higher Education, Educational Development
Fields, Jacqueline; Kenny, Natasha Ann; Mueller, Robin Alison – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
Promoting the development of educational leadership in higher education is essential for strengthening the quality of teaching and learning. Additional research is needed to conceptualize educational leadership, especially within informal roles. We analysed how faculty members in an academic development program conceptualized educational…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness
Sharif, Afsaneh; Welsh, Ashley; Myers, Jason; Wilson, Brian; Chan, Judy; Cho, Sunah; Miller, Jeff – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
This paper explores the experiences of a group of academic developers who support educational development work as Faculty Liaisons at a large, research-intensive university. These academic developers inhabit complex 'third spaces', providing support through an embedded partnership relationship that requires lateral movement across functional and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Research Universities, Partnerships in Education, Researchers
Nowell, Lorelli; Grant, Kimberley A.; Mikita, Kiara – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
Postdoctoral scholars are important members of the research community who make substantial contributions to research productivity. Three postdoctoral scholars at a Teaching and Learning Institute in Canada engaged in collaborative self-study to explore our initial experiences as postdoctoral scholars in the emerging fields of academic development…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Scholarship, Instruction, Learning