Academic development

Systematic Program Development Academic Staff

Academic Leadership Development: A Case Study.

A dean at a private school of nursing implemented a leadership development program for early- to mid-career nursing faculty consisting of one 4-hour evening session per academic quarter for 7 quarters. Eight faculty members who had expressed interest in assuming a leadership role or been recommended by their supervisors as having strong leadership potential were invited to join. Program topics ...

Development of an academic Internet resource.

Networked electronic publication is a relatively new development that has already begun to change the way in which medical information is exchanged. Electronic publications can present ideas that would be impossible in printed text, using multimedia components such as sound and movies. Physicians who use the World Wide Web (WWW) on a regular basis may recognize the value of electronic publicati...

Mentoring through scholarship-based academic development projects

While there is definitely a place for centrally delivered Professional Development (PD), staff often don’t transfer what they have learned in the PD sessions and return to their workspace usually continuing as before. This paper describes an evidenceand scholarship-based model of PD, where academic developers work closely with teaching staff on projects designed to address teaching needs specif...

Transformative Academic Development: Complexity and Convergence

In a dynamically changing higher education environment, a deep understanding and facilitation of relevant and flexible academic development is vitally important organisationally. A qualitative case study methodology was employed to analyse the organisational positioning and design of academic development as a means of gaining insights into the needs, challenges and evolutionary trends occurring...