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E-grāmata: Staff and Educational Development: Case Studies, Experience and Practice [Taylor & Francis e-book]

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Maintaining the practical and interactive focus of the series, this book features a collection of case studies of best practice from around the world, covering different situations, environments and course types. They include key areas such as skills, research, supervision and curriculum change and development, support services, implementing change, leadership, quality assurance and improvement and accreditation. The studies are presented in such a way as to encourage readers to engage in critical reflection. After each one, its author provides a thorough analysis of the case, teasing out key issues and providing links to research and experience in the area.
Contributors ix
Introduction: Thinking, Writing and Talking about Staff and Educational Development 1(12)
THE CASE STUDIES
Section 1: Working Directly with Teachers
1. Yes, But Can You Prove It?
Serge Piccinin
13(7)
Proving the effectiveness of one-on-one consultations
2. Professional Development in Retreat
Barbara Grant
20(9)
Using a retreat to work on developing skills in academic writing
3. Mapping the Way
Lindy McAllister
29(8)
Involving staff of a new department in curriculum development
4. Are Teachers Really Researchers?
Pip Bruce-Ferguson
37(6)
Encouraging staff to use action research on their own teaching
5. And the Right Answer Is...
Jackie Lublin
43(10)
Using experiential learning to alert staff to technical issues in assessment
Section 2: Unusual Sources of Staff and Educational Development
6. The Proof of the Pudding...
Glenda Crosling
53(7)
Gaining acceptance of faculty-based student support
7. Making a Difference
Joy Higgs
60(8)
Acting as an informal mentor
8. Walking a Tightrope
Carmel McNaught
68(9)
Translating an institutional directive for external audit into a development process
9. By Accident Or...?
David Murphy
77(10)
Using online material developed for other purposes as a resource for staff development
Section 3: Driving Change in Faculties and Institutions
10. I Will Survive
Robyn Lines and Peter Muir
87(10)
Using collaborative action learning for curriculum development
11. Better Together
Anne Oxley
97(8)
Encouraging staff to engage in inter-professional teaching and learning
12. The Seven Steps
Jamie Thompson
105(9)
Making academics feel more valued as teachers
13. Mission Impossible?
Veronique Johnston
114(11)
Promoting transformation and change through a student retention project
14. Standing Out in a Big Crowd
Steve Outram
125(9)
Making a university distinctive and implementing a top-down initiative
15. Too Much Too Soon?
Roger Landbeck
134(6)
Setting up a new development unit
16. We're Not Laughing Now Sylvia Huntley-Moore and
John Panter
140(13)
Introducing staff and educational development to a traditional university
Section 4: Working Nationally
17. Far Too Successful
David Baume
153(9)
Making accreditation of university teachers national policy and practice
18. Take One Country...
Suki Ekaratne
162(11)
Implementing a national system of staff development for university teachers
Section 5: Becoming a Developer
19. Ways to Make Things Better - One, Two, Three!
Alison Holmes
173(7)
Tracing the career of a developer from teacher, to quality unit to national project
Conclusion: Insights from the Case Studies 180(6)
Further Reading 186(5)
Index 191