Faculty Development: Consultation and Classroom Observation
Years ago before our university even had a Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL), it ran a faculty consultation process. One faculty member directed a cadre of ...
Years ago before our university even had a Center of Teaching and Learning (CTL), it ran a faculty consultation process. One faculty member directed a cadre of ...
In Creating the Future of Faculty Development (2006), Sorcinelli et al posit that faculty development has “entered a new age—the Age of the Network. Faculty, de...
By far our most important innovation for faculty development at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) has been Pedagogy Day. Our last post discussed innovating New ...
As any self-respecting Trekkie or casual follower of the Star Trek TV-movie enterprise knows, the Prime Directive forbids interference in developing civilizatio...
We begin Achieving Excellence in Teaching: A Self-help Guide (New Forums, 2014) by citing Gerry Nosich’s Learning To Think Things Through (2001). After citing m...
According to popular lore, the devil is in the details. Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe believes “God is in the details.” As for us, creativity is in the det...
Want a good exercise for writing better fiction, one that works whether you are a creative writing instructor or a fiction writer? Read on. In Chapter VIII of o...
In “Automation Makes Us Dumb” (Wall Street Journal, 22-23 November 2014), Nicholas Carr posits that as today’s computers and software programs get better and be...
Recently we have been involved with a Professional Learning Community on Flipping the Classroom as well as creating our Teacher’s Toolbox, an on-demand professi...
Recently we posted on the value of collaborative cruciverbalism—i.e., solving crossword puzzles with others is an effective tactic for developing creative think...