academic development – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Currently reading: Thirkell (2026) on “Frugal pedagogical innovation: reframing creativity in higher education teaching”

mglessmer — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:13:21 +0000

Innovation seems to still be one of the favourite buzzwords around, and in teaching, it often means fancier technology, larger group sizes that purportedly have even better learning outcomes, and all of that, of course, based in evidence showing typically large numbers of some sort. In this framing, Thirkell (2026) writes, “[p]edagogical innovation risks becoming […]

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Currently reading Wright (2023): “Centers for teaching and learning: The new landscape in higher education”

Mirjam — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:31:42 +0000

Torgny told me to read this, so I did… I only skimmed most of the details of the US landscape of centers for teaching and learning, but I found it really helpful to read about the Hub-Incubator-Temple-Sieve (HITS) framework (short introduction of the four lenses also in the evaluation guide for centers for teaching and […]

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Currently reading Harvey et al. (2026) on “What is good academic development practice? Introducing Australasian standards”

mglessmer — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:40:19 +0000

I just saw that Kjersti, Cathy’s and my article has been replaced as the latest publication on IJAD’s website, and that “What is good academic development practice? Introducing Australasian standards” by Harvey et al. (2026) has been published on the first of January this year! Which I of course have to read right away, because […]

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Currently reading about relational pedagogy, belonging, and engagement

mglessmer — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:42:08 +0000

I love it when Christmas text messages from colleagues are recommendations for great papers, thanks, Rachel! :-D Gilani (2025) does a longitudinal investigation of student sense of belonging which, in contrast to most other belonging studies that typically only capture a snapshot, investigates how belonging develops over time, and what students do to develop it. […]

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Published! Daae et al. (2025) “How academic developers can use modelling to promote active learning and co-creation”

mglessmer — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:51:59 +0000

Published on the 23rd of December! Check it out here! K. Daae, C. Bovill & M. S. Glessmer (23 Dec 2025): How academic developers can use modelling to promote active learning and co-creation, International Journal for Academic Development, DOI: 10.1080/1360144X.2025.2602863

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Currently reading Chick, Felten, Mårtensson (2025) “The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning”

mglessmer — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:48:43 +0000

A while back in Bergen, I had a writing session with three of my favourite colleagues, on a project which we have nicknamed “how to SoTL” — writing a low-threshold introduction to SoTL for busy teachers, with the idea that people who might be interested in publishing in TOS Oceanography or the Nordic Journal of […]

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Currently reading Corres et al. (2020): “Educator competences in sustainability education: A systematic review of frameworks”

mglessmer — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:26:11 +0000

What competences do educators need to Teach for Sustainability? Corres et al. (2020) review 14 articles that describe educator competence frameworks (all of them from within Europe, but not chosen for that specific reason!). My main takeaways below! First, I absolutely love their first sentence in their introduction: “In the face of current socio-environmental challenges, […]

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Reading about the role of academic development in Teaching for Sustainability

mglessmer — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:37:04 +0000

Today, I finally watched Anne-Kathrin Peters’ keynote at the Teaching and Learning conference at the University of Bergen (check it out here), and in it she mentions the article “Pain and pleasure in working with sustainability and transformation at a Technical University: An exploration of the role of educational developers through collaborative autoethnography” by Peters […]

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Currently browsing “Academic Teaching” by Elmgren and Olding (2025)

mglessmer — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:58:46 +0000

We are using the book “Academic Teaching” by Elmgren and Olding in our “Introduction to Teaching and Learning” course. They came out with a new edition this year (2025; and to be fair, it was Elmgren and Henriksson before!) and we’ve got it in the office now! Here are my notes on a super quick […]

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

mglessmer — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:53:02 +0000

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”. Actually, I was really surprised how much I enjoyed listening to it; I usually get bored pretty quickly by academic developers trying to figure out […]

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