Digitalization as a way to promote the holistic approach to faculty development: a developmental evaluation,

Faculty Development, in the last decades, has lived many transformations and many scholars are now wondering what will be the main feature that will characterize the next age, an age distinguished, in the academic world, by the changes that the pandemic just experienced brought with it. Obviously one of the main changes that this pandemic has brought with it is the increase in digitization within academic institutions and, consequently, the increase in the number of Faculty Development initiatives that are conveyed through online initiatives. However, this is a consideration that can be read not only as a stand-alone element but, if properly contextualized, could be used as a way to promote Faculty Development programs that exploit the potential offered by digital to create initiatives linked in a mutually reinforcing bond. This choice is consistent with the adherence to a holistic approach to Faculty Development that promotes a systemic and multifocal logic.