To Improve the Academy
Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development, Volume 31
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Beschreibung
An annual publication of the Professional and OrganizationalDevelopment Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve theAcademy offers a resource for improvement in higher educationto faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs,faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers,and educational consultants.
Contents include:
* Professional development for geographically dispersedfaculty
* Implementing a learning consortium for communication andchange
* Faculty engagement in program-level outcomes assessment
* What educational developers need to know aboutfaculty-artists
* Exploring the spiritual roots of midcareer faculty
* Raising funds from faculty for faculty development centers
* Mentoring in higher education
* Tough-love consulting in order to effect change
* Research on the impact of educational development
* Examining effective faculty practice
* Insights on millennial students
* Contemplative pedagogy of teaching and learning centers
* Faculty and student perspectives on course evaluationterminology
* Questions about student ratings
* Small-group individual diagnosis to improve onlineinstruction
* Supporting international faculty
* Complex ecologies of diversity, identity, teaching, andlearning
* Organizational strategies for fostering faculty racialinclusion
* The truth about students' capacity for multitasking
* Tweeting: the 2011 POD HBCUFDN Conference Twitterbackchannel
* Designing active learning with flexible technology
Autor*in
James E. Groccia
Themen in »To Improve the Academy«
Bildungswesen Education Faculty Development Fakultätsentwicklung Hochschulen / Lehren u. Lernen Teaching & Learning (Higher Education)