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Academic development: The profession

Kym Fraser
Centre for Higher Education Development
Monash University


Seventy-one professionals working in the field of academic/ educational/ teaching development were surveyed on issues relating to the profession. From that sample, 22 developers were interviewed on a range of related issues pertaining to their perceptions of the profession. One of the objectives of that research was to determine the conception(s) held by professionals in the field. The interviewees referred to the profession using different terminology for quite specific and often historical reasons. Often they used different terms interchangably or for different purposes. Different and sometimes diametrically opposed conceptions of the profession were held by different individuals. In this paper I report on the divergent conceptions of the profession which were reported in those interviews.

Contact person: Dr Kym Fraser. Email: Kym.fraser@adm.monash.edu.au
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Please cite as: Fraser, K. (2000). Academic development: The profession. In Flexible Learning for a Flexible Society, Proceedings of ASET-HERDSA 2000 Conference. Toowoomba, Qld, 2-5 July. ASET and HERDSA. http://cleo.murdoch.edu.au/gen/aset/confs/aset-herdsa2000/abstracts/fraser-abs.html


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