Research update #32: ‘Pen’ to paper
Not literally pen to paper clearly because who uses pens for anything other than signing things and as a left-hander the side of my hand dabs onto the still wet ink and turns into a […]
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Quick reading: Five papers on Academic Development (Hannon, 2008; Hicks, 2005; Boud & Brew, 2013; Lee & McWilliam, 2008; Bath & Smith, 2004)
Academic development refers to the professional development of academics – which makes sense when you think about it. Evidently I hadn’t thought about that a lot because until I skim read these five papers, I had put […]
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Thoughts on: ‘Sleeping with the enemy’: how far are you prepared to go to make a difference? A look at the divide between academic and allied staff (Wohlmuther, 2008)
At this stage of looking at the matter of professional staff and academic staff in Higher Education, I feel that I’m somewhat flogging a dead horse and everything that needs to be said, has been […]
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Research update #6
Not a stellar week – I did discover @legogradstudent on Twitter which is great Spotting multiple errors on his poster, the grad student is almost relieved that nobody is looking at his research. pic.twitter.com/u7Dg3N1Ubi — […]
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Thoughts on: The struggle to satisfy need: exploring the institutional cues for teaching support staff (Winslett, 2016)
While looking at three papers relating to professional staff in Higher Education recently I was conscious of two things. They were all written at least 12 years ago and they contained scant reference to people working in my […]
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Thoughts on: Three papers about professional vs academic staff in Higher Education. (McInnis, 1998; Dobson, 2000; Szekeres, 2004)
Given that people are at the heart of implementing and supporting TELT practices in Higher Education, I’ve been investigating the kinds of people involved. At the first level of the taxonomy, universities employ academic and professional […]
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Thoughts on: Distributed Leadership: a collaborative framework for academics, executives and professionals in higher education (Jones, Lefoe, Harvey & Ryland 2012)
culture, education design, Education Support People, expertise, higher education, organisation, Uncategorized
by Colin Simpson
1 Comment on Thoughts on: Distributed Leadership: a collaborative framework for academics, executives and professionals in higher education (Jones, Lefoe, Harvey & Ryland 2012)
The other day as I was reading and frustratedly scribbling notes all over this paper, I took a moment to tweet about it. I was about 2/3s of the way through and finding the honest and […]
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Thoughts on: Changing perspectives: teaching and learning centres’ strategic contributions to academic development in higher education. (Holt, Palmer & Challis, 2011)
As I’ve been investigating Education Support People as a theme in my lit review reading and writing this month, I came across a wealth of interesting papers by Dr Dale Holt at Deakin University. (Australia) This […]
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Research update (and post #100)
I thought twice about making this post, given that (according to the WordPress stats) it’s the 100th but my slightly neglected PhD Wunderlist has an ongoing to-do item involving making update posts about my research. […]
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More thoughts on: “Digital is not the future – Hacking the institution from the inside” – Technology, practical solutions and further questions
Previously on Screenface.net: I’ve been participating in an online “hack” looking at “Digital is not the future – Hacking the institution from the inside” with a number of other education designers/technologists. It’s been pretty great. […]
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