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Kneale, Pauline; Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Spowart, Lucy; Hughes, Jane; McKenna, Colleen; Muneer, Reema – Higher Education Academy, 2016
This toolkit is developed as a resource for providers of teaching-related continuing professional development (CPD) in higher education (HE). It focuses on capturing the longer-term value and impact of CPD for teachers and learners, and moving away from immediate satisfaction measures. It is informed by the literature on evaluating higher…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, College Faculty
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Spowart, Lucy; Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Muneer, Reema; McKenna, Colleen; Kneale, Pauline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
In this paper we report the outcomes of a national survey of academic development staff in a range of UK HE Institutions to consider the approaches adopted to evaluate teaching-related continual professional development (CPD). Despite the increasing drive towards accountability, the majority of respondents undertook no benchmarking to establish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development
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Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Spowart, Lucy; Muneer, Reema; Kneale, Pauline – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
The professionalisation of teaching is of increasing importance in UK higher education due to converging processes including the proliferation of managerialism, increasing quality agendas and changes to student fee structures. These have brought into sharp relief the need for greater understanding of how quality teaching evolves in university…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Reflection, Evidence Based Practice, Academic Achievement
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Turner, Rebecca; Morrison, David; Cotton, Debby; Child, Samantha; Stevens, Sebastian; Nash, Patricia; Kneale, Pauline – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
Entry into higher education (HE) is recognised as a challenging time for undergraduates as they negotiate the norms and practices of new academic communities and foster relationships with peers and academics. Given the significance of this time period, our University has piloted a new four-week module that immerses students in their discipline and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Immersion Programs, Pilot Projects
Kneale, Pauline; Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Spowart, Lucy; Hughes, Jane; McKenna, Colleen; Muneer, Reema – Higher Education Academy, 2016
Largely established in the 1990s, academic development for teachers in the United Kingdom (UK) higher education (HE) is still a relatively young field which is under regular review and revision. With recent changes to funding and priorities in the UK HE sector, the impact or effectiveness of continuing professional development (CPD) programmes and…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, College Faculty
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Dismore, Harriet; Turner, Rebecca; Huang, Rong – Higher Education Research and Development, 2019
Over the last few years, student engagement has become a commonly used term in Higher Education across the United Kingdom, American and Australasian higher education systems. This article presents research on an area of student engagement absent from the literature, that of new lecturers' practices. Following detailed analyses of interview data…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learner Engagement, Beginning Teachers, College Faculty
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Turner, Rebecca; Spowart, Lucy; Winter, Jennie; Muneer, Reema; Harvey, Chloe; Kneale, Pauline – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2017
Continuing professional development (CPD) for HE academic staff, through accredited courses for new lecturers, teaching innovation grants, peer review, mentoring and conference attendance, is firmly established practice, engagement with these activities may be essential to career progression. The input of students to CPD, student awareness of, or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Unions, Administrator Attitudes, College Students
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Huang, Rong; Turner, Rebecca – Journal of Education and Work, 2018
Recent policy developments in English Higher Education have resulted in employability placed in the spotlight, whereby the success of universities will be measured based on graduate employment. This represents the latest focus placed on employability in the sector, as universities are increasingly expected to provide employment-ready graduates to…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Study Abroad, Asians, College Students