Professional Development for Ethical Teaching

Professional development for online university teaching

Almost every higher education institution is challenged to develop increasing numbers of staff to teach online or blended modes of learning. The process needs to be rapid, cost-effective and lead directly to practical outcomes. From our experience, we had little time, opportunity or the need to start from scratch, and we chose to adopt and adapt a course that was based on a well-rehearsed and r...

teaching through professional development Charlotte Brack

Increasing use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in universities is a global trend. However, many teaching academics are unfamiliar with the possibilities of ICTs and have limited understanding of how to integrate them into their teaching in pedagogically appropriate ways. Th is highlights a need for universities to provide professional development opportunities to assist sta...

How Does Professional Development Improve Teaching?

Professional development programs are based on different theories of how students learn and different theories of how teachers learn. Reviewers often sort programs according to design features such as program duration, intensity, or the use of specific techniques such as coaches or online lessons, but these categories do not illuminate the programs’ underlying purpose or premises about teaching...

Teaching about development: Some professional issues

Teaching professional development in medical schools.

Doctors must increasingly be aware of what they should be, as well as what they should know. Professionalism, including a value system that supports the compassionate care of patients, is a means of encapsulating and prioritising these competing responsibilities. Accordingly, in this article, we assume that professionalism is an essential aspect of medical practice that needs to be taught to th...