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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
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
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
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
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
Karin Brown; Andreas Reinhardt; Thomas Korner – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
Early 2021 was an opportunity to discover how lecturers were planning future in-person teaching following pandemic-induced online teaching and their reasons for doing so. In interviews, six experienced lecturers identified rationales and underpinning evidence for teaching decisions. The strongest reoccurring pedagogical rationales were enabling…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Context Effect, Lecture Method
Mary English; Rachel Plews; Gail Matthews-DeNatale; Nick Wilson; Katherine Simeon; Helen Cheng – International Journal for Academic Development, 2024
This qualitative study examined how seven graduate students became prepared to teach in an unfamiliar online PBL environment through an experiential professional development program. During the 75-hour preparation program, graduate instructors completed readings and practice activities, immersed themselves in the student perspective, and completed…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Faculty Development, Teaching Methods, Graduate School Faculty
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
Adiningrum, Tatum S.; Budiono, Tri A.; Lappalainen, Harri – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
This study attempts to explore changes in teaching conceptions after a transnational project to introduce new pedagogical methods in Indonesia. The project involved a consortium of European universities as mentors and Indonesian universities as mentees, piloting methods based on a student-centred learning approach. We analysed vignettes from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Mentors, Student Centered Learning
Gurney, Laura; Grossi, Vittoria – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
In this article, we examine the "entrepreneurial self" as a response to prevailing neoliberalism in higher education. We draw on positioning theory to explore a case study of an academic language and learning (ALL) advisor at an Australian university. ALL advisors work closely with students and academic teaching staff to develop teaching…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Universities, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
Mercer-Mapstone, Lucy; Banas, Kasia; Davila, Yvonne; Huston, Wilhelmina; Meier, Peter; Mekonnen, Bethlehem – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
We explored the experiences of and outcomes for students and staff working in partnership on an academic development project aiming to enhance the inclusivity of science curricula across a faculty. Quantitative survey data revealed changes in student and staff perceptions, including increases in sense of belonging for both, perceptions of fairness…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Science Curriculum, Teacher Student Relationship, Decision Making
Taylor, Darci; Bearman, Margaret; Scarparo, Simona; Thomas, Matthew Krehl Edward – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
Moving to online teaching is an emotional experience for university educators. With increased demand for online learning, understanding emotions associated with this change is important so support can be provided. In a novel use of the Kübler-Ross model to illuminate educators' emotions about transitioning online, this study analysed texts from a…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, College Faculty, Emotional Experience
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
Koris, Rita; McKinnon, Sabine – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
This study explores reflections from academics (N = 13) from 12 higher education institutions in eight countries who relied on informal conversations in an online community of practice to switch to emergency remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the absence of formal academic development, they needed to develop themselves in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Development, Holistic Approach
Denney, Fiona – International Journal for Academic Development, 2022
Over the past two years, four research-intensive universities in the UK have appointed senior academic leaders from academic development backgrounds, a new phenomenon in this sector of UK higher education that may suggest a changing pattern. This study interviewed these four leaders to explore what the appointment means for their academic…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Research Universities, Foreign Countries, Higher Education