Using Technology To Build The Faculty Innovator Network
In explaining the creation of the Faculty Innovators, that group of faculty trained in consultations and workshops who are sent to various colleges and departme...
Author: Charlie Sweet
The Great Professional Learning Community Experiment
Everything can be innovated—case in point, the Professional Learning Community (PLC). While we have been using PLCs on campus for the past decade (for more thor...
Faculty Innovators: The Key to the Future of Faculty Development
Anyone who has been in faculty development for a while knows its main problem: the very clientele Centers for Teaching & Learning (CTLs) are charged with de...
A Reaction to Worthen’s “Lecture Me. Really.”
Perhaps the reports of the death of the Sage-on-the-Stage are premature. Periodically defenders of the lecture approach to teaching rise up to be heard. For ins...
Focused Faculty Groups: Breakfast and a Book
One thing CTLs can do effectively is bring together people from across campus with like interests, especially people who might not otherwise meet. Just as a hea...
How to Communicate Best Practices in Higher Ed Pedagogy
We recently explained the importance of space and instructor placement in Pedagogy Day, the opening day of our innovated New Faculty Orientation. But now that w...
Another Approach To Pedagogy Day
You might think that with our past two posts being on Pedagogy Day that we had pretty much covered the subject, but innovation has struck again, spurred by nece...
3 Principles for Innovating The Faculty Development Experience
Since it’s that time of year when New Faculty Orientation is almost upon us, we’re once again excited and renewed about the opportunity. Yet, a little over a de...
4 Reasons Authors Binge-Write
When we were in graduate school, one of the challenges was to try to read James Joyce’s 265,000-word Ulysses in Poe’s ideal of one sitting—binge-reading. And n...
Passion for the Profession: Achieving Excellence in Teaching
As the general managers prepare for that annual athletic rite of passage known as the National Football League Draft, we have noticed that they are starting to ...