0:00:00sure a lemon scent
0:00:01and only below
0:00:03associate professor
0:00:04soon to be a full professor yes
0:00:08at simon fraser university
0:00:10and my primary
0:00:14i guess identification is through you graduate program an educational technology and learning design
0:00:19the paper in the review of educational research is a literature review of the academic
0:00:25literature
0:00:26the motivation for was that the previous reviews of academic development literature have focused on
0:00:34the evaluation results so what's the impact of academic development programs
0:00:40and so we challenge that saying that
0:00:44that's not going to get as any further that the previous reviews have covered all
0:00:49the well done and well intentioned and all of that and producing some good results
0:00:54have looked at over thirty years of literature but still were not able to say
0:00:58hardly anything about what's effective academic development
0:01:02so instead of doing a
0:01:05the type of review where we look only at papers that
0:01:10fit a certain methodology research methodology we look a bit more broadly
0:01:14and we
0:01:16started reviewing that literature and then i can remember sitting in my office with a
0:01:21the students were working on at the time and saying
0:01:24you know
0:01:24these papers are starting to cluster in these different areas
0:01:29and we can kind of some this group of papers up as having a for
0:01:33example a reflection focused
0:01:36focus and they have these
0:01:39certain attributes and other papers worse we were starting to be able to form these
0:01:43clusters
0:01:44so this paper really is about that process
0:01:47what those clusters turned out to be
0:01:50and the methodology is very transparently described so people can understand how we got to
0:01:56them
0:01:57but then the question was just a step back from that framework that came through
0:02:01the analysis and to figure out what does it mean for academic development practise and
0:02:07for the research with academics i don't think you
0:02:11my experiences you don't tell people
0:02:14you should do x y and z what you trying to do is support them
0:02:18and making meeting so these people have
0:02:22great expertise in their subject area and my orientation is the teaching
0:02:28needs to be connected to that so people need to make decisions about teaching based
0:02:32on how they understand knowledge developed their discipline a not okay this is the way
0:02:37i teach you know let me learn some techniques and skills but
0:02:41you know there has to be meaning for the person and i think that the
0:02:45interest in teaching comes through understanding how do i sports teams and learning in this
0:02:49discipline
0:02:50and
0:02:52so i think
0:02:53that's the orientation
0:02:55we need to take at least in higher education research