Faculty Development
Teacher training and professional development never really ends, but is a career-long pursuit by educators and college administrators. Look to Faculty Focus for ongoing, self-directed learning opportunities.
September 4, 2010
The Teaching Professor Conference Issues Call for Papers for 2011
Magna Publications, the leading provider of professional development resources for the higher education community, today issued a Call for Proposals for the 2011 Teaching Professor Conference to be held May ... Read more »
July 14, 2010
Why You Should be Using Social Bookmarking Tools
Still storing your bookmarks on your browser? That is soooooooooo 2007. It’s time to get with the program and start using social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a ... Read more »
June 23, 2010
Helping Faculty to be Engaged and Productive
Academic leaders can have a tremendous effect on faculty satisfaction and productivity. Part of the responsibility of being an academic leader is to provide appropriate guidelines and support to foster ... Read more »
June 2, 2010
Reasons You Could be Disciplined, Fired, or Sued
A parent calls you to ask how her son is doing in your class. Her son, a first-year student, began the semester well but recently started missing class and turning ... Read more »
May 17, 2010
How to Screen, Train, and Keep Quality Adjuncts
Adjunct faculty make up approximately half of all instructional faculty in degree-granting institutions (National Center for Education Statistics, 2008). Some teach online and some in a traditional classroom-based setting. Some ... Read more »
April 28, 2010
Five Reminders for Boosting Your Effectiveness as a Teacher
I have observed, sometimes in myself and sometimes in colleagues, a certain tendency to be ironically unaware of (or inattentive to) a crucial disconnect between what we say and what ... Read more »
April 2, 2010
Learning from Experience: How Teaching is Like Golf
Management professor David A. Whetten, who now directs a faculty development center, admits with honesty that for some years he didn’t think there was much he could learn from people ... Read more »
March 12, 2010
Ethical Frameworks for Academic Decision-Making
Ethical action and decision-making has always undergirded higher education practice. For example, issues such as academic freedom and how to balance financial realities with the need for quality both have ... Read more »
December 16, 2009
Tips for Building a Personal Learning Network on Campus and Online
Colleagues can play such an important role in our development as teachers, yet most of the time we don’t make use of them in ways that really help us grow ... Read more »
October 12, 2009
Understanding What’s Needed for Online Teaching Success
Larry Ragan, director of faculty development for Penn State World Campus, may have given a new spin to the old expression “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road ... Read more »
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Asynchronous Learning and Trends
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Educational Assessment
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Effective Classroom Management
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Effective Teaching Strategies
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Curriculum Development
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Instructional Design
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Faculty Development
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Faculty Evaluation
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Learning Styles
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Distance Learning
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Online Education
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Philosophy of Teaching
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Learning Communities
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Teaching and Learning
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Trends in Higher Education
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Teaching Careers
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Community College
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Academic Leadership
