EduPal leaves no professor behind: Supporting faculty via a peer-powered recommender system [PDF]
The swift transitions in higher education after the COVID-19 outbreak identified a gap in the pedagogical support available to faculty. We propose a smart, knowledge-based chatbot that addresses issues of knowledge distillation and provides faculty with personalized recommendations. Our collaborative system crowdsources useful pedagogical practices and
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Academic Primer Series: Eight Key Papers about Education Theory
Many teachers adopt instructional methods based on assumptions of best practices without attention to or knowledge of supporting education theory. Familiarity with a variety of theories informs education that is efficient, strategic, and evidence-based.
Michael Gottlieb+6 more
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Problem Research productivity is expected of academic faculty, and mentoring can facilitate it. This paper presents a framework for using mentoring to develop researchers in health disciplines.
Lynda B. Ransdell+4 more
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Case Study: Context Interactions & Physics Faculty's Professional Development [PDF]
This paper investigates the interactions between context and professional development of physics instructors in a case study of two physics faculty. A phenomenological-case study approach was used to analyze two physics faculty at different institutions over a year and a half using three semi-structured interviews each.
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Seminar and Training Programs Recommender System for Faculty Members of Higher Education Institution [PDF]
This study aims to develop a personalized Recommender System that helps to address the problems encountered by the faculty members of Higher Education Institutions in the selection of Seminar and Training Programs (STP). The researcher used the Descriptive Developmental Method of research to gather information relevant to the current problems and ...
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Faculty Development EXPRESS: Tools for Time-Challenged Faculty
Faculty Development EXPRESS is intended to provide on-demand, convenient information to clinical faculty to enhance their skills as teachers. These tools are intended to promote clinical faculty development in their educational roles.
Catherine Kuhn+6 more
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An Interactive Zoo Guide: A Case Study of Collaborative Learning [PDF]
Real Industry Projects and team work can have a great impact on student learning but providing these activities requires significant commitment from academics. It requires several years planning implementing to create a collaborative learning environment that mimics the real world ICT (Information and Communication Technology) industry workplace.
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Faculty Development, in the last decades, has undergone many transformations and many scholars are now wondering what will be the main feature that will characterize the next age, an age distinguished, in the academic world, by the changes that the just ...
Roberta Silva
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Assessing the interactivity and prescriptiveness of faculty professional development workshops: The Real-Time Professional Development Observation Tool (R-PDOT) [PDF]
Professional development workshops are one of the primary mechanisms used to help faculty improve their teaching, and draw in many STEM instructors every year. Although workshops serve a critical role in changing instructional practices within our community, we rarely assess workshops through careful consideration of how they engage faculty.
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Educating Educators to Integrate Inclusive Design Across a 4-Year CS Degree Program [PDF]
How can an entire CS faculty, who together have been teaching the ACM standard CS curricula, shift to teaching elements of inclusive design across a 4-year undergraduate CS program? And will they even want to try? To investigate these questions, we developed an educate-the-educators curriculum to support this shift.
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