Draft:Academic development

Academic development is a field of practice and research within higher education that focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL)^[1]. Academic developers support university staff and institutions in enhancing the quality of education through professional development, curriculum design, pedagogical innovation.

Academic developers offer activities that aim to:

• Enhance teaching effectiveness
• Improve student learning and engagement
• Support curriculum and assessment design
• Promote reflective and evidence-based teaching
• Foster institutional change related to massification

Academic developers often work with individual educators, academic departments, and institutional leadership.