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...
Category: Faculty & Staff Development
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...
Assessment is a Team Sport: A Collaborative Faculty Process
If you look up “assessment” in the dictionary, you will not find reference to team sports. What you will find are definitions that include concepts such as eval...
Applying CRISP to Change Higher Education Campus Culture
In chapter nine of our Achieving Excellence in Teaching (2014), we explain the importance of using CRISP* as an organizational principle for effective classroom...
The Ins and Outs of Higher Education’s Culture of Assessment
Mention a “culture of assessment” to your colleagues in higher education and their responses to you may likely be an eye roll, sigh, or perhaps even a groan. Th...
An Innovative Plan for Assessing Faculty Development
Sunday night we had supper with assessment guru Peggy Maki, author of the forthcoming Real-Time Assessment, and while she was picking apart her eggplant parmigi...
How Design Thinking Helps Innovate Faculty Development, Part 2
In The Ten Faces of Innovation (2008), Tom Kelley, general manager of the design firm IDEO, emphasizes the essence of design theory’s philosophy of rapid experi...
How Design Thinking Helps Innovate Faculty Development, Part I
Throughout the years in our center for teaching & learning (CTL), we’ve pretty much relied on our own approach to creative thinking, something we’ve discuss...
Using Creative Thinking to Innovate Faculty Development
What is the relationship between innovation and faculty development? In the past we have discussed it in the abstract, but this time we’d like to demonstrate ho...