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Academic Developers and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (according to the Talking Learning and Teaching podcast)

August 23, 2025

Talking Learning and Teaching is quickly becoming one of my favourite podcasts! This morning, I really enjoyed the episode with Erik Brogt on “Pedagogical Content Knowledge in the Third Space”.…

More thoughts on teaching consultations menus

July 26, 2025

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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…

Finally reading THE SoTL book

July 26, 2025

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

July 26, 2025

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”

July 23, 2025

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”

July 22, 2025

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”

July 10, 2025

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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”

May 20, 2025

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”

May 19, 2025

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”

May 15, 2025

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?)

November 29, 2024

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“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)

November 29, 2024

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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)

November 29, 2024

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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)

September 5, 2024

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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

February 29, 2024

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)

January 22, 2024

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)

January 22, 2024

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?…

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Academic Developers and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (according to the Talking Learning and Teaching podcast)

More thoughts on teaching consultations menus

Finally reading THE SoTL book

Reading about going public with SoTL

Currently reading Shoshani (2025) on “Teachers’ flow, emotional well-being, and optimal teaching and learning experiences”

Currently reading Mårtensson et al. (2011) on “Developing a quality culture through the scholarship of teaching and learning”

Playing with a “Teaching Consultations Menu”

Roxå et al. (2025): “Entangled in context: addressing academic development and choice architecture”

Published! Dunnett & Glessmer (2025) “Positionality statements in engineering education: A European perspective”

Currently reading Ferguson (2025) on “Norwegian higher education teachers’ beliefs about teaching, motivation, and approaches to researching and developing teaching”

Academic developers are burning out (and finding coping strategies?)

The “returner problem” in academic development (currently reading: Bolander Laksov, 2024)

Academic development as “collaborative knotworking” (currently reading Elmberger et al., 2020)

Thinking about “Agency, context and change in academic development” (Land, 2001)

Academic development as horizontal learning

How academic developers think about relationships between teachers (a lot of Roxå & Mårtensson papers, plus some others)

Trust that teachers have in academic development (Little & Green (2002) and others)

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