Academic development should be conceptualised not only as a university-wide process, but also as a local practice and as a process of peer learning in the workplace. The paper suggests that formal approaches need to more fully situate academic development in sites of academic practice. Two examples from the author’s own setting—teaching development projects and writing for publication groups—il...

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OBJECTIVE To summarize a resource document that explains the concept and components of continuing professional development (CPD) for pharmacists, describes some of the drivers behind the reevaluation of current systems of continuing pharmacy education (CE), defines relevant terms, and outlines some experiences with CPD in selected countries that have already adopted the model. SUMMARY CPD is ...

This article describes a model of teacher change originally presented nearly two decades ago (Guskey, 1986) that began my long and warm friendship with Michael Huberman. The model portrays the temporal sequence of events from professional development experiences to enduring change in teachers’ attitudes and perceptions. Research evidence supporting the model is summarized and the conditions und...

Within the last fifteen years, many colleges of the province of Quebec in Canada have been faced with low admission rates in some less popular technical programs. The increased financial burden for these institutions and the enhanced task burden for teachers working with small groups of students threaten the quality of teaching and learning. In order to cope with this situation, computer-mediat...

I’VE SUBSCRIBED to IEEE Software since it started in 1984. I’ve always liked its practical focus and that it covers all types of software from embedded systems to large business systems. It was, and maybe still is, the most readable and useful of the magazines trying to bridge the divide between researchers and practitioners. For the past few years, though, I haven’t found much I want to read i...

The South African government implemented a compulsory one year community service strategy to address the shortage of human resources in the health sector since 1998. Medical practitioners (1999), dentists (2000) and pharmacists (2001) and other seven professional groups followed in 2003 and in July 2004. The nursing profession followed after the Health Minister’s announcement, the processing of...

Maribel Fierro’s motivating question is “[w]hy books dealing with specific subjects were written at times and in contexts.” Relying on a dataset compiled by Historia de los Autores y Transmisores al-Andalus (HATA), project she directs that aims to map the intellectual production of al-Andalus, author observes majority scholarship produced Andalusi scholars fiqh poetry texts. The former, argues,...