organisation

Does the name of a learning & teaching unit affect staff perceptions of being understood and valued?

data, names, organisation by Colin Simpson

The always impressive Alexandra Mihai recently shared this list of Higher Ed learning and teaching support/development units on Twitter. This led me to muse on whether someone might run an analysis on what the different […]

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Thoughts on Who Chooses What Ed Tech to Buy for the College Classroom? Jenae Cohn – Chronicle of Higher Education

ed tech, edtech, Education Support People, Education Technologist, higher education, organisation, technologist by Colin Simpson

https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-chooses-what-ed-tech-to-buy-for-the-college-classroom Given my job and my interests, I probably spend more time than most people thinking about how educational institutions implement educational technologies. This is not something that gets much coverage at all in research […]

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Thoughts on: The Organizational Structures of Instructional Design Teams in Higher Education: A Multiple Case Study (Drysdale, 2018) (Thesis)

edvisor, Instructional Designer, organisation, thesis by Colin Simpson

I carried on a bit about how great Uibelhoer’s thesis was recently in covering some much neglected ground and offering some new ways to think about the research I’m doing in my own one. This […]

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Research update #51: Been a long time Been a long time Been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time*

academic developer, academic development, attitudes, benchmarking, change, education design, Education Support People, edvisor, higher education, management, organisation by Colin Simpson

Actually it hasn’t been that lonely at all, life is pretty good on that front, but it certainly has been a long time since I last posted here – coming up to 3 months. So […]

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Research update #47: Proposal writing day (I don’t know, stuff, like 15 or something) – Tinkering and tweaking

organisation, PhD, writing by Colin Simpson

I’ve reached that glorious part of holidays where you have to check which day it is. I’ve been pecking away at the proposal on most days to different degrees and the biggest realisation that I […]

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Research update #23 – The ‘troublemaker’

organisation, Professional staff, reflection, TEL edvisors, TELT advisors by Colin Simpson 1 Comment on Research update #23 – The ‘troublemaker’

I went to a cross institute training thing last week and for some reason we did an icebreaker exercise where we had to introduce the person that we were sitting next to to the room. […]

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Thoughts on: Responding to university policies and initiatives: the role of reflexivity in the mid-career academic (Brew, Boud, Lucas & Crawford, 2017)

academic development, academics, attitudes, Education Support People, organisation by Colin Simpson

Is academia a workplace like any other? Going by the normalisation of academic staff attitudes towards organisational policies and initiatives displayed in this paper, it’s hard to believe so. As a professional staff member in […]

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Thoughts on: Exploring factors that influence adoption of e-learning within Higher Education (King & Boyatt, 2015)

academic development, academics, community of practice, discussion, ed tech, education, Education Support People, higher education, organisation, pedagogy, students, teachers, teaching, theory, tools by Colin Simpson 1 Comment on Thoughts on: Exploring factors that influence adoption of e-learning within Higher Education (King & Boyatt, 2015)

This is a big post because it is about a journal article that covers some of the core issues of my thesis in progress. I’ve spent far longer looking over, dissecting and running off on […]

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Thoughts on: ‘Sleeping with the enemy’: how far are you prepared to go to make a difference? A look at the divide between academic and allied staff (Wohlmuther, 2008)

culture, discussion, education design, Education Support People, methodology, organisation, research, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

At this stage of looking at the matter of professional staff and academic staff in Higher Education, I feel that I’m somewhat flogging a dead horse and everything that needs to be said, has been […]

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Thoughts on: The struggle to satisfy need: exploring the institutional cues for teaching support staff (Winslett, 2016)

culture, education design, Education Support People, organisation, Uncategorized by Colin Simpson

While looking at three papers relating to professional staff in Higher Education recently I was conscious of two things. They were all written at least 12 years ago and they contained scant reference to people working in my […]

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