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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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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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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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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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Indika Liyanage; Phatchara Phantharakphong – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
For staff of non-Anglophone universities, formal academic development (AD) is frequently equated with learning experiences in Anglophone settings to develop policy-assigned professional identities. Taking dialogic conceptions of professional identity and a temporal model of identity-agency as theoretical lenses, we examine the overseas AD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Language Teachers, English (Second Language)
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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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Susan Mathieson; K. Black; L. Allin; H. Hooper; R. Penlington; L. Mcinnes; L. Orme; E. Anderson – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This paper uses insider research within a Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) framework to examine the lived induction-to-teaching experiences of twelve new academics at a case-study Northern UK university. A CHAT lens foregrounds contradictions as a source for change in the induction-to-teaching process. Data generated through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Theories, Social Psychology, Beginning Teacher Induction
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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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J. Pareigis; M. Kvarnström; B. Cefa; J. Y. H. Bai; O. Zawacki-Richter; L. Uhlin; N. Jakobsson; G. Theilmeier – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Open Networked Learning (ONL) is a collaborative open online course for higher education educators worldwide, focusing on open education, collaborative learning, and course design. The interorganizational course welcomes both institutional and open learners from around 30 nations. Delivered 17 times since 2014 with up to 120 participants in each…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Communities of Practice, Open Education, Problem Based Learning
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Nokukhanya Ndlovu; Nosipho Mbatha; Vusi Msiza – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Academic development is a mammoth undertaking that requires collective effort from all stakeholders, extending beyond academic developers alone. As early career academics, we explore our experiences of academic development within our community of practice. Through a collaborative self-study, we reveal how our community of practice has bolstered…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Beginning Teachers, Communities of Practice, College Faculty
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