ABSTRACT
Continuing professional learning and development (CPLD) in higher education is critical for improving the quality of teaching. Major change or crisis events often bring to light the need to upskill teaching staff to manage successful transition through those periods. When the COVID-19 pandemic caused our institution to pivot to emergency online teaching and learning, we identified a need to provide additional support to academic staff as they moved to online teaching. We introduced an approach called Share Sessions, where staff presented their innovative online teaching practice in a Zoom session. In this chapter, we introduce the Share Sessions as an informal cross-disciplinary approach to CPLD. We report the results of in-depth interviews with ten academics who presented in the Share Sessions. By employing hermeneutic phenomenology as an overarching research methodology, we thematically analysed the interviews and categorised the data into three broad categories: academics as connected learners, community of practice, and sense-making of informal sharing. Suggestions are provided for implementing this approach with a three-step process of planning for before, during, and following the Share Sessions. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.