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Gerlese S. Åkerlind – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
This paper outlines the impact of phenomenography on higher education research and academic development. Interest in phenomenography as an educational research methodology continues to grow, but with interest growing faster than the number of experienced researchers, some misunderstandings of the approach have arisen and been circulating in…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Higher Education
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Little, Deandra; Green, David A. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
For educational developers (also called academic or faculty developers) to facilitate change toward effective teaching and learning practices at any level, they must build trust and communicate credible expertise, often while conveying 'second-hand' educational knowledge to academics who then act on that knowledge in their own work. In this…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Change, Trust (Psychology), Credibility
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Bearman, Margaret; Smith, Calvin D.; Carbone, Angela; Slade, Susan; Baik, Chi; Hughes-Warrington, Marnie; Neumann, David L. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
Systematic review methodology can be distinguished from narrative reviews of the literature through its emphasis on transparent, structured and comprehensive approaches to searching the literature and its requirement for formal synthesis of research findings. There appears to be relatively little use of the systematic review methodology within the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Research Methodology, Performance Factors
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Barrow, Mark; Grant, Barbara – Higher Education Research and Development, 2012
The nature of academic development in contemporary universities has been a recent focus in the literature. Highlighting the diversity of practices that exist under its name, "academic development" has been described by some as an ambiguous project and a fragmented field, while others suggest a more coherent project, pointing out a near…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational History, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
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Lee, Alison; Manathunga, Catherine; Kandlbinder, Peter – Higher Education Research and Development, 2010
Academic development has had an approximately forty-year history within Australian higher education, paralleling the major expansions and changes in the sector, both nationally and internationally. Its principal concerns have been the improvement of teaching and the professional development of the academics who teach. The history of academic…
Descriptors: Oral History, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Interviews
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Challis, Di; Holt, Dale; Palmer, Stuart – Higher Education Research and Development, 2009
Approximately 70% of Australian Teaching and Learning Centres have been restructured and/or have undergone leadership changes in the last three years. The volatility of this environment reflects the number of significant challenges faced by Teaching and Learning Centres. In determining what makes Centres successful, the issues that are likely to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Interviews
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Stigmar, Martin – Higher Education Research and Development, 2008
A number of countries, including Sweden, are reconsidering traditional teaching and learning methods in higher education. This article describes the work of implementing an Educational Action Programme to support faculty development. The work has been organized by an educational developer at the Educational Development Unit (EDU). Representatives…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Development, Strategic Planning, Foreign Countries
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de Boer, Harry; Goedegebuure, Leo – Higher Education Research and Development, 2007
As one of the first countries in Europe to do so, The Netherlands moved towards a new relationship between the state and the higher education institutions in the mid-1980s. Autonomy, quality and accountability were key considerations in this move. In 2006 the Dutch government proposed another radical innovation in its approach to higher education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Higher Education, Policy Analysis
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Booth, Shirley; Anderberg, Elsie – Higher Education Research and Development, 2005
In this paper, we look backwards to educational development principles and practices as implemented in the 1990s at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and forward to ideal principles and practices for the design of courses for teachers in higher education. The bridge between the two lies partly in an evaluation study, which we will…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Teacher Education, Higher Education