Posts Tagged ‘pedagogy’
December 11 - Student Learning and Course Content: How Fast Do They Forget?
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching and Learning
Although faculty would like to think optimistically, most know that when it comes to student learning and how much content students take with them from a course, even one in their major, reality dashes optimism.
July 7 - Faculty Learning Community Brings Together Diverse Group to Discuss Asynchronous Learning and Trends
By: Rob Kelly in Asynchronous Learning and Trends
No matter how long you’ve taught, there is always something you can learn from colleagues. This is the concept behind Kent State University’s faculty learning communities (FLCs). Currently, KSU offers 13 FLCs, one of which focuses solely on asynchronous communication.
June 18 - Creating and Sustaining Institution-wide Pedagogical Change
By: Rob Kelly in Teaching and Learning
Despite increased external pressure on teaching and learning innovation, top-down, centralized strategic initiatives usually fail to produce large-scale transformational change. And the problem with smaller-scale pedagogical innovation is that the impact is rarely felt beyond those directly involved, says Johanna Duponte, acting dean of health sciences at Bristol Community College in Massachusetts.
June 13 - Facilitating Teaching Excellence in Discipline-Specific Contexts
By: Ranga Venkatachary, PhD in Faculty Development
With regard to formal training events offered by teaching-learning centers at large universities, faculty members are often heard to say that training in pedagogy is useful only when situated within their discipline-specific issues.
June 12 - The ‘Gotta Wanna’ Principle
By: Sandra Allen, MA, MBA in Faculty Development
Quick: How do you motivate someone you don’t often see? Sound like the opening of a bad joke? Not at all. Therein lies the fundamental challenge of managing professionals whose very career choice rests on the simultaneous hunger for freedom and dignity.
