Open AccessBeyond Survival: Educational Development and the Maturing of the POD Network
Author(s) -
OrtquistAhrens Leslie
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/tia2.20031
Subject(s) - professionalization , scholarship , maturity (psychological) , globe , point of delivery , professional development , analogy , corporate governance , field (mathematics) , political science , management , sociology , social science , psychology , pedagogy , biology , epistemology , economics , philosophy , mathematics , neuroscience , law , agronomy , pure mathematics
Scholarship about the growth of educational development has charted major shifts in developers' focuses and roles through time and, especially in recent years, has explored the professionalization of the field around the globe. This essay uses a lifecycle analogy to consider the development of one organization, the POD Network (The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education). After a brief and heady “start‐up phase,” and a long organizational “adolescence,” characterized by growth and by increasing formalization of processes, governance, and strategy, the POD Network is on the brink of entering a phase of greater maturity.