In Academic Leadership, Faculty Development
December 23, 2008 Rob Kelly
The number of hours spent in the classroom per week was significantly, negatively related to salaries at research, doctoral-granting, and comprehensive colleges both in 1992-93 and in 1998-99.
In Academic Leadership, Online Education
December 22, 2008 Mary Bart
Has the rapid expansion of online education put your institution on a collision course with faculty incentive policies? Although more and more faculty are teaching online, few colleges and…
In Academic Leadership, Faculty Development
December 18, 2008 John N. McDaniel PhD
In yesterday’s post, it was argued that perhaps student evaluations were not, in Martha Stewart’s famous phrase, “a good thing,” given doubts about the qualifications of students to judge…
In Academic Leadership, Faculty Development
December 17, 2008 Thomas R. McDaniel PhD
These student evaluations are so much a part of our system and have become so routine for our students and faculty that I have seldom questioned their value or…
In Effective Teaching Strategies, Faculty Development
December 16, 2008 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
When teachers think the best way to improve their teaching is by developing their content knowledge, they end up with sophisticated levels of knowledge, but they have only simplistic…
December 15, 2008 Mary Bart
For some educators, student learning assessment is a little like exercise. Yes, we know it’s important, we feel better when we do it, and we can even see the…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Online Course Design
December 12, 2008 Faculty Focus
Good online course design begins with a clear understanding of specific learning outcomes and ways to engage students, while creating activities that allow students to take some control of…
December 11, 2008 Maryellen Weimer, PhD
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…
December 9, 2008 Marianne Castano Bishop
In asynchronous discussion forums, participants usually come from diverse backgrounds, including gender and culture, and the textual cues they post online are usually reflections of their own diversity. How…
In Free Reports, Free Reports: Classroom Management
December 5, 2008 Faculty Focus
Effective classroom management is much more than simply administering corrective measures when a student misbehaves; it's about developing proactive ways to prevent problems from occurring in the first place…
