METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO HIGHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

Methodological Contributions to Professional Education and Training

Professional education and training plays a crucial role for successful transfer of innovative Software Engineering technologies and for achieving long-term strategic goals of an organization. We describe how empirically validated knowledge related to methods, tools, and techniques is organized and maintained in an organizational unit called Experience Factory. Emphasis of the paper is to descr...

Diverse Methodological Approaches and Considerations for SoTL in Higher Education

The scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) is a distinctive form of research that is shaped by multidisciplinary contexts and focuses on practice-driven institutional/curricula/classroom inquiries with an explicit transformational agenda. This essay provides critical insight to the importance of communities of SoTL practitioners, diverse investigations and methodological approaches within ...

Higher professional education

We wish to commend Patterson et al (March Journal)1 on their endeavour to describe a competency model for general practice. We fully support their view that it is important to be able to describe not only what we do but also what our patients want us to do. We are also gratified that they have provided further support for the validity of the component consultation competences contained within t...

from higher education to professional practice

Professional Identity in Higher Education

Research in higher education has concentrated on a number of areas, which include the values and collective identities of academic faculty, their role in higher education governance, faculty norms and socialisation processes, and the impact of change in higher education on academic roles (Rhoades 2007). While many authors advocate the types of research methodology that should be used in such in...