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Thursday, March 30, 2006
"Professional development of higher education teachers, can distance education make a difference?" - Yngve Troye NORDKVELLE, TJODE
A fairly new dimension of teaching in academic institutions has been to adapt to distance education and on-line education. The changes in academic work following this development have caused strong resistance as well as enthusiasm (Noble 2001, Burbules and Callister jr. 2000). However, teaching at the university has in general had a weak position in relation to the other activities of the professor. Changing the methods and contexts of teaching will have repercussions for this position. My claim in this article is that it might further the status of teaching in the academic profession. First I will explore the usefulness of terms like scholarship and professionalism in this context and make a short historical test of their significance. Thereafter I will use the terminology developed for professionalism in teaching, generally and argue for the need for improving teaching as a professional virtue of the academic profession.
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