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Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

2007

Faculty development

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Enhancing Higher Education Through Leadership Capacity Development: Progressing The Faculty Scholars Model, Geraldine E. Lefoe, H. Smigiel, Dominique R. Parrish Jul 2007

Enhancing Higher Education Through Leadership Capacity Development: Progressing The Faculty Scholars Model, Geraldine E. Lefoe, H. Smigiel, Dominique R. Parrish

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This showcase provides an overview of a leadership capacity building initiative for the scholarship of teaching through a faculty-based scholars’ network, which supports strategic change through leadership, activities embedded in authentic learning tasks. The new leaders developed through this initiative will provide a critical mass for extending the network by adopting a cascade model for distributive leadership through mentoring of future implementations within and across institutions. This showcase will provide a review of the literature, and an overview of the work in progress. It will conclude with a presentation of some guiding principles for discussion and a call for expressions …


New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Using Scenarios For Staff Development With Mobile Technologies, Geraldine E. Lefoe, I. Olney Jan 2007

New Technologies, New Pedagogies: Using Scenarios For Staff Development With Mobile Technologies, Geraldine E. Lefoe, I. Olney

Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) - Papers

This paper explores the staff development process to engage academics in a Faculty of Education to explore new pedagogies required to incorporate the use of mobile learning technologies in teaching and learning activities with their students. Many staff acknowledged the benefits of active learning to meet the needs of millennial learners. This project sought to address ways to incorporate the everyday technologies these learners are using within the assessment process. The staff development process addressed the need for staff to own and use mobile technology in their professional and personal contexts in order to think differently about engaging their students …