Häftad, Engelska, 2006

To Improve the Academy

Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development

Av Robertson, Nilson, Douglas Reimondo Robertson

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Beskrivning

An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, this 25th anniversary edition of To Improve the Academy focuses on contributing to and expanding the scholarship of educational development. Each chapter of this volume provides context and strategies for faculty and organizational development that advances student learning.To Improve the Academy, Volume 25, offers a resource for innovating and meeting new challenges in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants. Divided into five sections, the book covers topics such as POD's ethical guidelines for educational developersEducational development and sociological imagination, or the ability to connect individual experience to social structureParadigms for readers to consider, including critical theory and chaos theoryEducational development and the scholarship of teaching and learningSpecific practices and issues related to improving curriculum and instructionFaculty development, vitality, and reward at different stages of the faculty careerThe aim of the book—and POD as an organization—is to instill in educational developers a sense of responsibility for improving the quality of teaching and learning. This anniversary edition not only celebrates this value but also guides readers to a workable understanding of how to contribute to improvements in higher education.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2006-09-15
Mått: 156 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt: 572 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Serie: JB - Anker
Antal sidor: 428
Förlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN: 9781933371085

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DOUGLAS REIMONDO ROBERTSON is assistant provost and professor at Northern Kentucky University. He has helped to start or reorganize four university professional development centers (Portland State University, University of Nevada, Eastern Kentucky University, and Northern Kentucky University. He is senior editor of the book series on better teaching for new Forums Press, as well as current or past member of the editorial boards for Innovative Higher Education, Journal for Excellence in College Teaching, and Kentucky Journal for Excellence in College teaching and Learning. He is Fullbright senior specialist candidate and a frequent consultant and speaker at colleges, universities, and a diverse array of other organizations. He has authored or co-edited five books including Making Time, Making Change: Avoiding Overload in College Teaching (New Forums press, 2003) and Self-Directed Growth (Brunner-Routledge, 1988). LINDA B. NILSON is founding director of Clemson University's Office of teaching Effectiveness and Innovation. She recently co-edited Enhancing Learning with Laptops in the Classroom (Jossey-bass, 2005) and revised her bestselling guidebook Teaching at Its Best: A research-Based Resource for College Instructors (Anker, 2003), now in its second edition. In addition to teaching a graduate course on college teaching, she leads faculty workshops at universities and conferences both nationally and internationally. Before coming to Clemson, she directed teaching centers at Vanderbilt University and the University of California-Riverside, and was on the sociology faculty at the University of California-Los Angeles.

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