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Sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: The role of policy and policy implementers

Continuous professional development (CPD) is important for academics to improve the quality of their teaching and their students’ learning. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative case study on CPD support at a Malaysian private university. It reports the perceptions of institutional lea...

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Main Authors: Annyza Tumar, *, Asimiran, Soaib, Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope, Ismi Arif, Ismail
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Published: Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, Turkey 2015
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LB2300 Higher Education
Online Access:http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1040/1/Annyza%20TOJET%202015-Sept.pdf
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spelling my.sunway.eprints.10402019-05-24T06:42:22Z http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1040/ Sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: The role of policy and policy implementers Annyza Tumar, * Asimiran, Soaib Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope Ismi Arif, Ismail LB2300 Higher Education Continuous professional development (CPD) is important for academics to improve the quality of their teaching and their students’ learning. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative case study on CPD support at a Malaysian private university. It reports the perceptions of institutional leaders and academics on existing CPD support and how such support can be increased. Data was derived from interviews and teaching observations while factual verification was obtained through document analysis. Findings indicated the institution was supportive of its academics’ CPD needs through top-down measures including policies and guidelines, and provision of different on-site CPD models. However, there were some gaps between areas of CPD needs and areas supported. One implication was that existing policy gap could be reduced through policy review and revision. Another implication was a need for academic heads to go beyond their role as policy implementers by identifying, initiating and supporting specific CPD needs at the departmental level. Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, Turkey 2015-09 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_4 http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1040/1/Annyza%20TOJET%202015-Sept.pdf Annyza Tumar, * and Asimiran, Soaib and Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope and Ismi Arif, Ismail (2015) Sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: The role of policy and policy implementers. TOJET: The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, Sept. pp. 462-469. ISSN 1303-6521 http://www.tojet.net/special/2015_9_1.pdf
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Annyza Tumar, *
Asimiran, Soaib
Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope
Ismi Arif, Ismail
Sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: The role of policy and policy implementers
description Continuous professional development (CPD) is important for academics to improve the quality of their teaching and their students’ learning. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative case study on CPD support at a Malaysian private university. It reports the perceptions of institutional leaders and academics on existing CPD support and how such support can be increased. Data was derived from interviews and teaching observations while factual verification was obtained through document analysis. Findings indicated the institution was supportive of its academics’ CPD needs through top-down measures including policies and guidelines, and provision of different on-site CPD models. However, there were some gaps between areas of CPD needs and areas supported. One implication was that existing policy gap could be reduced through policy review and revision. Another implication was a need for academic heads to go beyond their role as policy implementers by identifying, initiating and supporting specific CPD needs at the departmental level.
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author Annyza Tumar, *
Asimiran, Soaib
Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope
Ismi Arif, Ismail
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Asimiran, Soaib
Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope
Ismi Arif, Ismail
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title Sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: The role of policy and policy implementers
title_short Sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: The role of policy and policy implementers
title_full Sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: The role of policy and policy implementers
title_fullStr Sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: The role of policy and policy implementers
title_full_unstemmed Sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: The role of policy and policy implementers
title_sort sustaining continuous professional development for quality teaching and learning in higher education: the role of policy and policy implementers
publisher Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, Turkey
publishDate 2015
url http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/1040/1/Annyza%20TOJET%202015-Sept.pdf
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