More thoughts on teaching consultations menus
When I first put together my Teaching Consultations Menu (see below; inspired by Noah (2025)’s awesome book), I discussed how I really liked the menu because of how easily it…
Tag: academic development
Finally reading THE SoTL book
I have been planning to read “SoTL in action: Illuminating critical moments of practice” edited by Chick (2023) for literally weeks, and then when I finally managed to put my…
Reading about going public with SoTL
I am still trying to read up on SoTL for a project I am working on, but keep getting side-tracked (but at least this time it is by a SoTL…
Currently reading Shoshani (2025) on “Teachers’ flow, emotional well-being, and optimal teaching and learning experiences”
I’ve been vaguely interested in the persistence of emotions ever since Marlis’ presentation about eco-emotions since at least mine can fluctuate enormously (which makes it very hard to fill in…
Currently reading Mårtensson et al. (2011) on “Developing a quality culture through the scholarship of teaching and learning”
Hard to believe I never summarized this paper by my own colleagues, on SoTL, in our own context at Lund University before, but here we go!
Playing with a “Teaching Consultations Menu”
I discovered the book “Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality: A Guide to Crafting Engaging Professional Learning Experiences in Higher Education” by Tolu Noah (2025) through an interview on my…
Roxå et al. (2025): “Entangled in context: addressing academic development and choice architecture”
My colleague Torgny Roxå had a new paper come out (on our shared Birthday no less!) on how academic development depends on context. Together with colleagues from Bratislava, they investigate…
Published! Dunnett & Glessmer (2025) “Positionality statements in engineering education: A European perspective”
Sharing is not always caring! And especially expecting others to share things about themselves that they might not be ready to share. The editorial “Positionality statements in engineering education: A…
Currently reading Ferguson (2025) on “Norwegian higher education teachers’ beliefs about teaching, motivation, and approaches to researching and developing teaching”
I recently interviewed a bunch of teachers about thresholds they have faced and overcome, or are still facing, regarding teaching for sustainability. One question was where they would turn for…
Academic developers are burning out (and finding coping strategies?)
“Paradoxically, it seems that although academic development centres to an increasing degree support academics in avoiding burnout, support structures to hinder burnout of academic developers are almost non-existent.” (Bolander Laksov…
The “returner problem” in academic development (currently reading: Bolander Laksov, 2024)
One problem of academic development is the “returner problem” — enthusiasm that participants might show during the workshops or other professional development opportunities we provide does often not result in…
Academic development as “collaborative knotworking” (currently reading Elmberger et al., 2020)
Today I came across the metaphor of “collaborative knotworking” for academic development. I think it is really helpful to think about this in the context of the “returning home problem”…
Thinking about “Agency, context and change in academic development” (Land, 2001)
I recently rediscovered the article by Land (2001) on how different orientations to academic development can be put into relation to each other. And I find it so helpful to…
Academic development as horizontal learning
There are different ways to approach academic development: courses are very common with different lengths and amounts of collaboration built in, as loose collection of seminars or with progression over…
How academic developers think about relationships between teachers (a lot of Roxå & Mårtensson papers, plus some others)
Our work as academic developers at CEE is based on how we think that relationships between teachers work, and using that to influence their conversations in a way that improves…
Trust that teachers have in academic development (Little & Green (2002) and others)
Now that my working assumption is that trust is essential for student learning, what about trust that our “students”, i.e. the participants in our academic development workshops, have in us?…