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Anna K. Wood; Hazel Christie; Jill R. D. MacKay; George Kinnear – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This study explored the way in which detailed data about how time is spent on classroom activities, generated by the FILL+ tool (Framework for Interactive Learning in Lectures), can stimulate professional conversations about teaching practices and aid reflection for STEMM lecturers. The lecturers felt that personalised data provided an unbiased…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Reflective Teaching, STEM Education, Medicine
Xiangyun Du; Youmen Chaaban; Hessa Al-Thani; Adrian Lundberg – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This article reports on an evaluation study of the Qatar University Pedagogical Development (PD) Program. The PD program advocated pedagogical advancement towards student-centered learning (SCL), which has been highlighted as an important part of the university's overall strategy. This study explored 30 university teachers' perspectives on the…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Q Methodology, Student Centered Learning
Koris, Rita; McKinnon, Sabine – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
Building on previous research on informal conversations in teachers' academic development, this study explores how academics' reflections on their teaching practices are shaped by online conversations with their international colleagues. In-depth interviews conducted with teachers (N = 13) at 12 higher education institutions in eight countries…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Computer Mediated Communication, Educational Development, International Cooperation
Lisewski, Bernard – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
This paper describes the Teaching and Learning Regime concept, situating it within top-down university policy implementation and its possible interactions, with bottom-up disciplinary cultures. It argues that top-down policy implementation needs to acknowledge the importance of disciplinary practice architectures and the enablements and…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Practices, School Policy, Intellectual Disciplines
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
McGrath, Cormac – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
This paper presents the findings of a four-year research project studying change practice and agency in higher education. The main findings of five empirical studies are presented. These findings lay bare how academic staff perceive opportunities to change their practice, identify leaders' strategies when trying to bring about change, illustrate…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Educational Development, Educational Practices
Mercer-Mapstone, Lucy – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
A growing number of practitioners are re-envisioning higher education through student--staff partnership. Such a culture shift toward partnership can only be achieved through collaborative efforts among academic developers, other faculty/staff, and students. Using evidence from literature and my own reflections, I map the ways this partnership…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Cunningham, Catriona; Mills, Jennie – International Journal for Academic Development, 2020
Reading poetry through a metaphorical lens, we enquire into our lived experience of academic development. By reading poetry as a metaphor for practice it becomes possible to explore teaching identities within higher education, creating opportunities for learning and critical self-awareness. Comparing and contrasting our different interpretations…
Descriptors: Poetry, Figurative Language, Professional Identity, College Faculty
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
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
Behari-Leak, Kasturi; Mokou, Goitsione – International Journal for Academic Development, 2019
New voices emerging in the global South are contesting the academy's elitist and exclusionary ethos by disrupting the normalcy of coloniality. Concerns raised by the student protests of 2015 and 2016 have challenged the higher education sector to rethink its traditional teaching, learning, and assessment practices in response to student calls for…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Higher Education, Educational Practices, Equal Education
Meizlish, Deborah S.; Wright, Mary C.; Howard, Joseph; Kaplan, Matthew L. – International Journal for Academic Development, 2018
This paper presents a quasi-experimental evaluation of a required, teaching-focused, new faculty program at a large research university. The study makes use of institutional data, including student evaluations of teaching and faculty participation in educational development activities, which are available on many campuses yet rarely used in…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Effectiveness, School Statistics, Beginning Teachers
Lauridsen, Karen M.; Lauridsen, Ole – International Journal for Academic Development, 2018
With more programmes being taught through English in non-Anglophone contexts, higher education lecturers are faced with new challenges. This article briefly presents a professional development initiative carried out at departmental level as an intervention for all English Medium Instruction lecturers. In order to assess the effect of such an…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Educational Environment, Teacher Competencies, Interpersonal Competence
Cook-Sather, Alison; Schlosser, Joel Alden; Sweeney, Abigail; Peterson, Laurel M.; Cassidy, Kimberly Wright; Colón García, Ana – International Journal for Academic Development, 2018
Academic development that supports the enactment of positive psychology practices through student-faculty pedagogical partnership can increase faculty confidence and capacity in their first year in a new institution. When student partners practice affirmation and encouragement of strengths-based growth, processes of faculty acclimation and…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Psychology, Partnerships in Education, Teacher Student Relationship
Pelger, Susanne; Larsson, Maria – International Journal for Academic Development, 2018
This study explores the impact academic teachers' writing of a teaching portfolio can have on their professional learning. Through an open-ended questionnaire, 26 academics from three faculties reported on insights, effects on teaching practice, and effects on collegial exchange that the portfolio writing entailed. We discuss how the experienced…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, College Faculty