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To improve the academy. Vol. 25 : resources for faculty, instructional, and organizational development
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To improve the academy. Vol. 25 : resources for faculty, instructional, and organizational development

Author: Douglas Reimondo Robertson; Linda B Nilson; Professional and Organizational Network in Higher Education.
Publisher: Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub. C., ©2007.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas Reimondo Robertson; Linda B Nilson; Professional and Organizational Network in Higher Education.
ISBN: 9781933371085 1933371080
OCLC Number: 77524318
Description: xxviii, 389 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Section I: Educational development and the sociological imagination -- It all started in the sixties, movements for change across the decades, a personal journey / R. Eugene Rice -- Living engagement / Bell Hooks, Douglas Reimondo Robertson -- Surviving to tenure / James M. Lang -- Section II: Paradigms -- A critical theory perspective on faculty development / Stephen D. Brookfield -- The ABCs of fractal thinking in higher education / Edward Nuhfer -- Section III: Educational development and the scholarship of teaching and learning -- Toward a scholarship of teaching and learning in educational development / Peter Felten, Alan Kalish, Allison Pingree, Kathryn M. Plank -- Faculty development through student learning initiatives, lessons learned / Nancy Simpson, Jean Layne, Adalet Baris Gunersel, Blake Godkin, Jeff Froyd -- Action research for instructional improvement, using data to enhance student learning at your institution / Constance E. Cook, Mary Wright, Christopher O'Neal -- Moving from the scholarship of teaching and learning to educational research, an example from engineering / Ruth A. Streveler, Maura Borrego, Karl A. Smith. Section IV: Instructional and curricular development -- Structuring complex cooperative learning activities in 50-minute classes / Barbara J. Millis -- "Heritage rocks", principles and best practices of effective intercultural teaching and learning / Peter Frederick, Mary James -- How do you handle this situation? Responses by faculty in Great Britain and the United States to workshops on the ethics of teaching / Miriam Rosalyn Diamond -- In the eye of the storm, students' perceptions of helpful faculty actions following a collective tragedy / Therese A. Huston, Michele DiPietro -- Sustaining the undergraduate seminar, on the importance of modeling and giving guidelines / Shelley Z. Reuter -- Teaching business by doing business, an interdisciplinary faculty-friendly approach / Larry K. Michaelsen, Mary McCord -- Section V: Faculty careers -- The scholarship of civic engagement, defining, documenting, and evaluating faculty work / Robert G. Bringle, Julie A. Hatcher, Patti H. Clayton -- How post-tenure review can support the teaching development of senior faculty / Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Mei-Yau Shih, Mathew L. Ouellett, Marjory Stewart -- Faculty development in student learning communities, exploring the vitality of mid-career faculty participants / Shari Ellertson, John H. Schuh -- Making meaning of a life in teaching, a memoir-writing project for seasoned faculty / Kathleen F. O'Donovan, Steve R. Simmons -- Transforming a teaching culture through peer mentoring, Connecticut College's Johnson Teaching Seminar for incoming faculty / Michael Reder, Eugene V. Gallagher -- Preparing future faculty for careers in academic librarianship, a paradigm shift for collaboration in higher education / Sean Patrick Knowlton, Laura L. B. Border.
Responsibility: Douglas Reimondo Robertson, editor ; Linda B. Nilson, associate editor.

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