Spheres of Influence: Ventures and Visions in Educational Development

Training University Teachers

• Are teaching workshops worthwhile?
  Helen Spafford Jacob
  Allan Goody
• Lean times a catalyst for building learning communities, opportunities for scholarship of teaching and collegiality in an educational development program.
  Janice Orrell
• Educational development: a catalyst for enhanced collegiality.
  Kogi Naidoo

Online Learning

• Enhancing teaching and learning through an institutional approach to online teaching - the OLT experience.
  Halima Goss
• C&IT in learning and teaching: developing the developers.
  Mary McCulloch,
  Kathy Wiles,
  Simon Heath
• From banking education to knowledge searching: a paradigm shift from traditional learning to distance learning.
  Dele Braimoh

Learning Environments

• *Metacognition and the autonomous learner: student reflections on cognitive profiles and learning environment development.
  Ray Webster
• *Discourses in educational development: representations of learner independence in university culture.
  David Palfreyman
• Changing learning environments for quality tertiary classes.
  Chenicheri Sid Nair

International Perspectives

• *Globalisation of higher education - an evaluation of Sweden's national Agency of Higher Education's investment in an international teachers' exchange programme.
  Marie-Louise Annerblom
• Teacher education.
  Marija Bratanic
• *The marketing of higher education in South Africa - Venture versus Vision.
  Willemien Law,
  Susan van Schalkwyk

Postgraduate Learning Development

• *Teaching postgraduate research methods using a novel problem-based learning approach.
  Roisin Donnelly
• *Research supervisor educational development: turning the light on a private space.
  Catherine Manathunga
• Training PhD - supervision.
  Lise Busk Kofoed,
  Anette Kolmos

Educational Development

• Developing teaching and learning partnerships: the use of service agreements in the area of educational development at the University of South Australia.
  Margaret Hicks
• Cross cultural implications of adapting a constructivist faculty development program across campuses and countries.
  Katherine Sanders,
  Fiona Underwood,
  Jean Layne
• No third seminar

Quality

• *Quality down under - integrating quality and audit in higher education with good development practice.
  Helen Edwards
• Institutional policy development in the service of improving teaching and learning - implementing graduate qualities at the University of South Australia.
  Ted Nunan
• Governmental Influence and Visions of Educational Development: The Malaysian Experience
  AA Rahmån
  A. Faiz A. Hamid

Systemic Approaches

• *Development of student skills in reflective writing.
  Terry King
• Peer mentoring and academic advising as strategies to consolidate the teaching-learning process in higher education.
  Shaheeda Essack
• An organisational approach to educational development in teaching learning strategies in context.
  Denise Chalmers,
  Ronald Smith,
  Paul Lam

International Perspectives

• Education in Nigeria: a futuristic perspective.
  Tola Olujuwon
• The bridge that never was
  Mani Mala Puri
• A Swedish commitment to teaching and learning.
  Anna Lundh

Student Learning

• *Student perspectives impacting on the incorporation of generic learning outcomes in a technikon diploma programme - a South African study.
  Susan van Schalkwyk
• The influence of personality and approach to learning on information literacy skills.
  Jannica Heinström
• Enhancing learning using generic and specific aspects of knowledge formation.
  Peter Petocz,
  Anna Reid

Tutor, Sessional and Team Teaching

• Enhancing the training, support and management of sessional teaching staff: a national project.
  Denise Chalmers,
  Rachel Hannam,
  Debra Herbert
• Tutor training for computer-supported and face-to-face learning in groups: experiences and ideas!
  Kirsten Hofgaard Lycke,
  Helge Stromso
  Per Grottum
• *Influencing future practice: developing and implementing a required course on teamwork in a large inter-professional class.
  Joan Loomis,
  Elizabeth Taylor,
  Rosemarie Cunningham

Promoting Quality

• Promoting excellence in teaching in higher education: reflections of the recipients of the vice-chancellor's award for excellence in teaching.
  Chris Kapp
• Linking scholarly teaching directly to salary and departmental funding.
  Torgny Roxa
• Minding our quality A's and E's whilst recognising and rewarding teaching excellence.
  Barbara Groombridge,
  Martijntje Kulski

• Supporting the challenge of educational change.
  Ranald Macdonald
  (Workshop)

• *Promoting teaching and learning development through a partnership model.
  Joyce Weinsheimer,
  Joel Weinsheimer
  (Workshop)

• Developing and conducting synchronous and asynchronous faculty development workshops: linking a community of teacher-scholars On-line.
  Karin L. Sandell
  (Workshop)

Student Learning

• Helping students learn to learn - simple things that university teachers can do.
  Angela Ho
• A national educational development project to enhance teaching in large classes.
  Denise Chalmers,
  Rachel Hannam,
  Debra Herbert,
  Doune Macdonald,
  Ron Weber
• Promoting effective study-habits among university students.
  Love M. Nneji

The Classroom and Assessment

• *The supervised work session: the workplace in the lecture room.
  Pat Paterson
• Community classrooms - developing independent practitioners.
  Elizabeth Taylor,
  E. Sharon Brintnell
• By the assessment the profession is known.
  Janice Orrell

• *Promote: alternative ways of fostering educational development in higher education.
  Ray Land,
  Jan McArthur,
  Shirley Earl,
  Liz Elvidge,
  Charles Juwah,
  David Ross
  (Workshop)

• Vision vs organisational location: does the organisational location of academic-educational development units inevitably influence and possibly limit their vision?
  Chris Rust
  (Workshop)

• Meeting the personal and professional needs of all staff: rise to the challenge!
  Kogi Naidoo
  (Workshop)

• *Maximizing office-hour instruction: workshops and techniques to help instructors influence learning outcomes.
  Miriam Diamond
  (Workshop)

• *Using a school-based model to drive change in assessment practices in distributed campus environment.
  Gail Wilson
  (Workshop)