To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development - Softcover

Nilson, Linda B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470373989 ISBN 13: 9780470373989

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

To Improve the Academy Volume 27

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:

• The educational developer as magician

• Lessons in the field of faculty development

• Facilitating culture analysis and change

• Using a database at a faculty development center

• Center for teaching and learning directors

• Suggestions and tools for using learner-centered teaching approaches

• Faculty writing institutes as professional development

• Faculty leadership

• Creating programs to nurture the spirit

• An online tool for individual consultations

• Developing a learning-focused classroom observation form

• Long-term value and effects of teaching center consultations

• The scholarship of teaching and learning at community colleges

• Creating successful faculty development programs at small colleges

• Faculty development programs

• Blind peer review of scholarship of teaching and learning

• Learning-centered evaluation of teaching

• Personal and professional support for new faculty

• Mentoring faculty

• Preparing advocates for faculty development

• Teaching learning processes to students and teachers

About the Author:

Linda B. Nilson is founding director of the Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation at Clemson University.

Judith E. Miller is associate dean for special academic initiatives at Clark University in Worcester, MA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470373989
• ISBN 13: 9780470373989
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Miller Judith E.