James O’Meara’s Blog

Universities are collective of individual learners all working towards generating a new theory or concept that will help other in their field better understand a problem or challenge within their discipline.  While generating new learning at an individual level may influence the observations or actions of colleagues within that field how does such knowledge help shape the world views or routines of colleagues who work at your university. There is a need for a culture shift among academics that involves the introduction of an expectation that academics spend some time generalising their learnings for the benefit of their university’s community. Moving beyond the collection of publication through ERA to include collections of how an academic has contributed to knowledge generalisation at his or her university may help transform an academic from someone who works at a university to someone who works for a university