How Collaborative Innovative Thinking Led to the DEEP System
In our last post we described a new online professional development system we christened DEEP (Developing Excellence in Eastern’s Professors). Perhaps just as i...
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An Editor’s Perspective: Tips for Publishing, Part II
In an earlier blog I began to provide a few tips for publishing. As noted earlier, I have edited a journal since 2001. This is a continuation of that blog (http...
How We Are Developing Excellence in Eastern’s Professors
If the assessment reports for your center of teaching & learning (CTL) indicated that you were reaching only 10% of your faculty, what would you do to impro...
Using the Deep Learning Inventory to Transform Your Campus
A few years ago, as Rusty, Hal, and I mentioned in previous posts, we ever-so-slightly changed our CTL’s motto/prime directive from “Helping Teachers Help Stude...
Defining and Evaluating Scholarship Lite Content in Higher Education
A few years ago, a friend of ours in the University’s College of Education submitted materials to his departmental Promotion, Tenure, and Evaluation Committee, ...
Funding The Faculty Innovator’s Program
Dee Fink of Creating Significant Learning Experiences (2003) fame has championed centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) in his books, articles, and appearance...
Faculty Assessment Efforts: To Stipend or Not To Stipend
Assessment is a people process – not a person process – a people process. In higher education, the people are the faculty. It’s always a bit of a surprise that ...
Under Construction: Developing a Style Sheet for the Journal of Faculty Development
The past few weeks we have been reading and rereading manuscripts for a special issue of the Journal of Faculty Development (JFD) on the future of faculty devel...
3D Assessment: Using Data, Discussions and Decisions to Engage Faculty
My two previous blogs clarified the meaning of the common, if not slightly overused phrase, culture of assessment, and presented assessment as a collective and ...
How to Improve Faculty Attendance at Higher Ed Professional Development Events
With one week remaining in the semester and one event to go, we are already assured of doubling last year’s attendance in our Teaching & Learning Center’s p...