Hi everyone,
The Nancy Chism et al. article came out in this year's To Improve the Academy (TIA 31). The volume is available from Wiley: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118257812,descCd-tableOfContents.html
If you're not familiar with it, TIA is the annual monograph of the POD Network. While it only appears every autumn (attendees at the annual conference get a copy), it's the POD equivalent of IETI and is seen as more of a journal. Past issues are worth checking out and Wiley has only recently made the back catalogue available. There are plans afoot to turn TIA into a regular journal in the next few years.
Thanks for getting this thread started, Julie.
All the best,
David
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Hi,
One of the few attempts to look at the literature in order to assess the impact of ED is by a paper by Nancy Chism et al.
Chism, N. V. N., M. Holley, et al. (2013). Researching the impact of educational development: Basis for informed practice. To improve the academy. J. E. Groccia. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. 31.
I have a pre-publication copy if anyone would like to see it. I will need to check with Nancy whether it's OK to release the text to others.
David Gosling
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Hi, All
Agreed, Steve! I am minded of SEDA's strapline - Supporting and Leading Educational Change.
To follow that up, as Roni has done, I am also pulling together a SEDA Special for next May entitled Supporting Educational Change which will highlight many of the roles we engage in as academic developers, including a chapter focusing on developmental evaluation and a number of case studies from around the world.
Teacher development programmes are part of the change initiatives in which we engage but, as Gina rightly says, only part. Personally, I have had very little involvement with PGCerts or other initial training activities in my career, apart from some work with the HEA over the last three years for early career academics and those new to teaching, as well as being an external examiner for PGCerts at a number of institutions. I therefore agree with Kristine that we should look to the whole range of activities we engage in as individuals and departments. We also shouldn't ignore the 'academic or educational developers' who work within academic departments under various guises and other student or learning support departments.
The challenge is also, in the words of Lao Tzu:
But of a good leader, who talks little, When his (sic) work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will all say, 'We did this ourselves'.
Our impact on student learning is at least of a second order as it largely happens through the engagement by teachers; which doesn't mean that we should try to gauge our impact - it's just very difficult!
Best wishes
Ranald
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And above all, we work with change!
Best
Steve
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timely reminder Kristine!
yes its only part of what we do- Gina
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Thanks Julie - and also for your very informative blog.
I think as a community of educational developers we need to be careful that those within and outside 'the sector' do not equate 'educational development'
with 'teacher development programmes'. They may need reminding that educational development encompasses a wider sphere of activity such as promoting pedagogic research and the scholarship of learning and teaching; dissemination through publication; curriculum development (for example internationalising the curriculum; promoting employability; education for sustainable development); work on academic leadership; research supervisor programmes; contribution to institutional policies (for example, on assessment; quality assurance; community engagement) and direct work with
students. Whilst it may be appropriate to start with the impact of
'teacher development programmes' on student learning, we as educational developers need to ensure that the impact of the range of our endeavour is not ignored.
Best wishes
Kristine
Kristine Mason O'Connor
ps. it might be worth considering what the impact on student learning would be if there had been no educational development....
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Lots of questions to consider stemming from HE Academy/ Guardian newspaper debate last week which will result in an article in the Guardian on 20th
November:
http://seda-julie.blogspot.co.uk/
Julie Hall SEDA co-chair
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