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To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development
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Paperback. The development of students is a fundamental purpose of higher education and requires for its success effective advising, teaching, leadership, and management. This annual volume offers examples and resources for the enrichment of all educational developers. Editor(s): Groccia, James E. Series: JB-Anker. Num Pages: 400 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNKH; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 572.
An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.
Contents include:
- Professional development for geographically dispersed faculty
- Implementing a learning consortium for communication and change
- Faculty engagement in program-level outcomes assessment
- What educational developers need to know about faculty-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 ... Read more
- Insights on millennial students
- Contemplative pedagogy of teaching and learning centers
- Faculty and student perspectives on course evaluation terminology
- Questions about student ratings
- Small-group individual diagnosis to improve online instruction
- Supporting international faculty
- Complex ecologies of diversity, identity, teaching, and learning
- Organizational strategies for fostering faculty racial inclusion
- The truth about students' capacity for multitasking
- Tweeting: the 2011 POD HBCUFDN Conference Twitter backchannel
- Designing active learning with flexible technology
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Condition
New
Series
JB-Anker
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118257814
SKU
V9781118257814
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Ref
99-1
About Unknown
THE EDITORS James E. Groccia, former president of POD, is director of the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and associate professor of higher education at Auburn University. Laura Cruz is director of the Coulter Faculty Commons and associate professor of history at Western Carolina University.
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