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:
* Evidence-based changes in faculty and organizationaldevelopment
* Creative collaboration between faculty and technologists
* Integrating research on teaching and learning and the practiceof teaching
* Formal and informal support for pretenure faculty
* Strategies to support senior faculty
* Faculty development and productivity
* Using e-portfolios in hybrid professional development
* Developing a faculty learning community grounded in the scienceof how people learn
* Assessing the long-term impact of a professional developmentprogram
* An analysis of faculty development scholarship
* Program planning, prioritizing, and improvement
* A consultations tracking database system for improving facultydevelopment consultation services
* Graduate assistant development
* Using undergraduates to prepare international teachingassistants for the American classroom
* Tracking perceptions of preparation for future facultycompetencies
* Student consultants of color and faculty members workingtogether toward culturally sustaining pedagogy
* Measuring student learning to document faculty teachingeffectiveness
* Learning with mobile apps
* Slow pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and professionaldevelopment
* Principles of video games that can enhance teaching
* The Reacting to the Past pedagogy and engaging the first-yearstudent
James E. Groccia
Bildungswesen Education Faculty Development Fakultätsentwicklung Hochschulen / Lehren u. Lernen Teaching & Learning (Higher Education)