ERIC Number: EJ1306829
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Educational Development for Quality Graduate Supervision
Alharbi, Hawazen; Jacobsen, Michele
Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, v1 p41-46 2016
Graduate supervisors can benefit from ongoing educational development to enhance and develop their supervisory skills. From new supervisors to more experienced ones, faculty members can all benefit from gathering to discuss and exchange their experiences and supervision practices. Increasingly, graduate education research (Egan, Stockley, Brouwer, Tripp, & Stechyson, 2009; Erichsen, Bolliger & Halupa, 2014) is focusing on the study of best practices for graduate supervision given the need to enhance the student/supervisor relationship, increase students' satisfaction with the quality of supervision, and generate better outcomes for graduate students. Offering educational development opportunities for graduate supervisors is complicated and needs more attention from universities. This paper aims to shed some light on the role of graduate supervisors, the factors that may contribute to developing successful graduate supervision experiences, the factors that contribute to the complexity of graduate supervision with a discussion of different types of support for a successful graduate supervision and lastly, the design of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that focuses on Quality Graduate Supervision to be offered at the University of Calgary.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Graduate Students, Supervision, Supervisors, Best Practices, Online Courses
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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