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Emma Dore; Adair Richards – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
How can academic developers support Early Career Academics (ECAs) to increase in confidence as they step into their new responsibilities? Previous work has demonstrated the negative impacts of ECAs' low self-efficacy, focusing recommendations on the need for systemic changes. Going further than previous academic development work to apply social…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Self Esteem, Self Efficacy, Well Being
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Laura A. Lukes; Sophia Abbot; Dayna Henry; Melissa Wells; Liesl Baum; Kim Case; Edward J. Brantmeier; Lindsay Wheeler – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Academic developers play a key role in advancing instructor engagement in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at their higher education institutions, but face structural and epistemological isolation. To leverage the knowledge and experience of developers leading SoTL efforts at their respective institutions, a group of academic…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Strategic Planning, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Tracie Marcella Addy; Mark J. Sciutto; Eric J. Hagan – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
VITAL faculty, also known as non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities in the United States, play critical roles in educating students but are often excluded from professional development and community-building opportunities that support their growth and development as instructors. In this article, we describe how we addressed…
Descriptors: Consortia, College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Sense of Community
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Emily O. Gravett; Laurie L. McCarty; Lindsay Bernhagen – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Recent research has explored the role of gender in educational development. International and national studies have shown that women predominate the field. In 2017, Bernhagen and Gravett analyzed the gendered nature of educational development in the U.S. specifically. What went unaddressed were the identities of the faculty served. Despite recent…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Sex Role, Gender Issues, Disproportionate Representation
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Grimwood, Marita; Hetherington, Richy – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
This paper calls for consideration of appropriate support and development for doctoral research students involved in supervision of undergraduate and Master's degree projects. This subgroup's professional development tends to be neglected in academic development and the related literature. The paper describes a development workshop offered…
Descriptors: Supervision, Student Research, Doctoral Students, Graduate Students
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Dean, Bonnie Amelia – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
This paper will challenge readers to consider their approach to supporting academics who are writing a teaching portfolio. What comes first? The literature, collecting evidence or something else? In this reflection on practice, I offer an approach that centralises practice as the core focus for starting this process. Grounded in theoretical…
Descriptors: Educational Development, College Faculty, Portfolios (Background Materials), Writing (Composition)
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Taylor, K. Lynn; Kenny, Natasha A.; Perrault, Ellen; Mueller, Robin A. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
This paper explores the nature of integrated networks of practice, and in particular, the important role of "hubs" within networks. Hubs are individuals or groups that energize cross-connections, improve knowledge flow, enhance learning across small clusters of expertise, and play critical roles in building and sustaining robust…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Communities of Practice, Information Networks, Educational Development
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Compton, Martin; Gilmour, Alison – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
This reflection centres on how existing tensions in academic development work were magnified and challenged as competing imperatives sought to (re)define the roles of academic developers at a UK university during the pandemic in 2020. In a situation of heightened anxiety amongst all stakeholders, issues relating to professional agency, expertise,…
Descriptors: Altruism, Teaching Methods, Expertise, Foreign Countries
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Marin, L. F.; Valgardson, B. A.; Watson, E. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
As is the case with many Centres for Teaching and Learning, prior to the global health crisis in 2020 our Centre primarily obtained feedback to inform its programming based on participation and satisfaction. As a result of the crisis, we could not rely on previous sources of information and needed to implement new strategies for evidencing the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Strategies, Education Service Centers
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O'Toole, Sarah; O'Sullivan, Ide; O'Brien, Emma; Costelloe, Laura – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
The disruption caused by the pandemic and the rapid transition to online teaching brings into sharp focus the role of academic development within the institution and creates an opportunity to pause and reflect on the impact of the academic developer (AD) role. This reflection on practice explores how the AD role has transitioned through the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education
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Cruz, Laura; Dickens, Elizabeth; Flaming, Anna L. Bostwick; Wheeler, Lindsay B. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
The complex and ever-changing nature of the field of educational development has led to a scholarship of educational development (SoED) that is rich but also enigmatic. The authors outline four lenses through which SoED might be viewed, ultimately proposing a framework for SoED that empowers scholars to engage in a sophisticated negotiation…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Research, Scholarship, Evidence Based Practice
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Gilmore, Dawn – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
This paper details a six-step model for coaching online teachers that has been successfully implemented at an Australian university. Drawing on three fields of literature -- online teaching, community of practice theory and coaching programs -- the model involves: (1) on-boarding and goal-setting; (2) coaching conversations about online teaching…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Coaching (Performance), Faculty Development, Web Based Instruction
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Mooney, Julie A.; Miller-Young, Janice – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Drawing on the qualitative research interview, the authors propose the Educational Development Interview is an important but understudied form of significant conversation and educational development practice. By summarizing types of interviews from educational development literature, and describing our recent use of interviews for producing videos…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Iqbal, Isabeau; Vigna, John – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Having collaborated closely on a project we dubbed the 'peer review of teaching marathon,' we reflect on the role of care in opening up conversations about teaching and learning. We posit that care, through collaboration, lays a foundation for trust in higher education. Trust, in turn, invites us to be open to new ideas, to be kind and have…
Descriptors: Caring, Trust (Psychology), Peer Evaluation, College Faculty
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Ndlovu, Nokukhanya; Msiza, Vusi; Mbatha, Nosipho – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
Early career academics (ECAs) face multiple academic challenges as many assume their duties with little or no experience of the work employed. Formal organizational structures within the university space may set programs to assimilate and assert them into their responsibilities gradually. However, where do ECAs retreat to when the hierarchical and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Faculty Development, Dialogs (Language), Foreign Countries
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