Towards strategic staff development in higher education /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Richard Blackwell and Paul Blackmore.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Maidenhead :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Society for Research into Higher Education & Open University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xv, 232 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Preface -- Part One: Setting the scene -- Rethinking strategic staff development -- Academic roles and relationships -- The challenge of lifelong learning -- Promoting entrepreneurship in higher education -- Part Two: Extra-institutional influences -- Disciplines and the development of a scholarship of teaching and learning -- Developing the subject dimension to staff development -- A new approach to professionalizing teaching and accrediting training: The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education -- Just another initiative?: Investors in People in higher education -- Leadership and management development: an overview -- Part Three: Intra-institutional matters -- Developing departments -- Research and teaching: making the link -- Embedding e-learning practices -- Career development for research staff -- Part Four: Case studies -- Creating a local research culture -- 'The best 100 pounds': Learning Works in the University of Glasgow -- Using a student-focussed learning perspective to align academic development with institutional quality assurance.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This book focuses on strategic staff development in higher education, a sector in which it has been largely viewed as an operational activity with little organizational relevance. The book demonstrates how staff development needs to be based on modern theories of 'organizational learning', aligning itself with institutional and departmental needs as well as the wants and needs of individual staff. The book takes a broad definition of staff development and seeks to cover all aspects of the academic role and the interests of all staff. The traditional focus on teaching and learning is covered bu.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS NOTE (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES)
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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00992953
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9780335212095
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Title
Towards strategic staff development in higher education.