Educational ambassadorship: an approach to institutional change

Session Time and Location

Date:
Fri, 8 Jun 2018
Time:
Time:
9:45am to 11:15am
Room: Room:
Gardenia
Session Track
  • Organizational Development
Session Format
  • Paper

Speaker(s)

Klara Bolander Laksov

After the collapse of the previous academic development unit (ADU) at a large Swedish university, I was asked in 2015 to build up a new ADU. I inherited a generous budget and six academic developers. My goal was threefold: to build capacity to inspire and generate educational development; to establish communities of practice around teaching and learning at the departmental level; and to develop an institutional culture built on sharing and collaboration and in line with the scholarship of teaching and learning. In this presentation, I share what we did and the findings based on interviews with 24 participants. 

 

  • Session References +

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