Staff development: A practitioner's reaction

Evidence-based staff training: a guide for practitioners.

Behavior analysts in human service agencies are commonly expected to train support staff as one of their job duties. Traditional staff training is usually didactic in nature and generally has not proven particularly effective. We describe an alternative, evidence-based approach for training performance skills to human service staff. The description includes a specific means of conducting a beha...

Staff development and education.

In die lig van ontwikkelings in die gesondheidsdienste is dit noodsaaklik dat verpleegadministrateurs bekwame bestuurders moet wees. Die gebied van personeelbestuur is van fundamentele beiang en hiervan is personeelontwikkeling en -onderrig ’n belangrike onderdeel. Enkele gebiede van personeelontwikkeling wat op plaaslike vlak meer aandag behoort te kry, word toegelig met spesifieke verwysing n...

Insights from a staff development course

In this special session we meet a set of projects in computer science and engineering education at a university in Saudi Arabia. They are the product of a pedagogical development course ran in collaboration with a Swedish university during the academic year 2013/2014. The projects reflect the local situation, with its possibilities and challenges, and suggest steps to take, in the local environ...

Staff Development in a Climate of Retrenchment

Collaborative staff development across a diverse organisation

This paper examines the role of staff training and support in the experience of staff with online teaching at Australian Catholic University. Australian Catholic University’s online education is differentiated from other Australian universities for two reasons: 1) It has 6 nationally based campuses spread across a geographical reach of 2,500 kilometres, 2) It has no internal Flexible Learning o...