Is academic development dead?

As an Academic/Educational Developer in Australia, I have noticed a change in the higher education landscape in Australia in relation to the professional development of Academics/Faculty as Educator and I wondered whether this is just a regional phenomenon. This paper 'seeks to dwell on what is going on' (Regehr, 2010) and explore academic development from the perspective of quality assurance standard requirements and how that may be playing out in practice in Australia as compared with Canada and the United Kingdom.