International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Volume 3, Number 1, January 2009
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Continuing Professional Development in Higher Education: The Role of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
There have been two recent developments in the area of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: a recognition of the importance of the continuing development of academics in teaching and learning (CPD in HE) and the possible role in this development of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). This essay aims to provide appropriate links between the two.
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Lewis Elton
University of Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire, England, UK
l.elton@pcps.ucl.ac.uk
I am Visiting Professor of Higher Education, University of Gloucestershire, Honorary Professor of Higher Education, University College London, Professor Emeritus of Higher Education and Visiting Distinguished Scholar, University of Surrey, Fellow of the American Institute of Physics and of the Society for Research into Higher Education. I hold Doctorates (honoris causa) from the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Gloucestershire, have been presented with a Festschrift by my former students [P. Ashwin (ed), Changing Higher Education: The Development of Learning and Teaching, Routledge Education], and received the Times Higher Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005. In recent years I have developed a Postgraduate course, through distance learning, on Research and Development in Higher Education for experienced academic teachers and have been the External Examiner for similar courses at the Universities of Oxford, Hong Kong, and at the Dublin Institute of Technology. My most recent work has been concerned with the scholarship of teaching and learning, including the research/teaching nexus in higher education, and the balance between collegial and top down management in universities.