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To Improve the Academy, 2021 The Association of American Colleges and Universities calls for improvements in teaching preparation in graduate programs as a transferable skill for future faculty.
Ashley Hooper +3 more
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Constellations of Support: A Community Development Model
To Improve the Academy, 2021 This article describes the rationale, development process, and initial artifacts and outcomes of a faculty support (a.k.a. mentoring) model developed for a specific academic context: a College of Education at a Southeastern comprehensive public ...
Melba Spooner, Tracy Smith
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Toward institutionalizing successful innovations in the Academy
To Improve the Academy, 2022 Due to the “wicked problem” of the Academy’s resistance to innovation, new teaching and learning programs struggle to become integrated into the fabric of the Academy, which slows the uptake of evidence-based practices.
Clara E. Smith +5 more
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A mixed methods study of faculty experiences in a course design institute
To Improve the Academy, 2023 Remote teaching created a unique opportunity to study the experiences of faculty participating in a course design institute. Hundreds enrolled in our online institute, where technologies (e.g., Zoom, Canvas, Google Docs) facilitated interactions among ...
Carie N Cardamone, Heather Dwyer
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To Improve the Academy, 2022 This article presents a critical reflection on the experiences of three university instructors (two teaching stream and one tenure stream) within a 6-month peer-to-peer mentoring for teaching community of practice (P2P CoP).
Andrew Dicks +2 more
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Finding Our Voice: Highly Flexible ED for the HyFlex World
To Improve the Academy, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic brought about unprecedented changes in our approach to delivering educational development (ED) programming. In this article we discuss how our dual ED centers pivoted during the sudden switch to online learning, highlighting how we ...
Amy Gagnon +6 more
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Implementation Plans for Course Redesigns: An Exploration of Identified Strategies
To Improve the Academy, 2021 Institutions are redesigning gateway courses—lower-division courses known to create student success bottlenecks—to influence persistence and completion goals.
Benjamin Blankenship, Rebecca Campbell
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Learning communities promote pedagogical metacognition in higher education faculty
To Improve the Academy, 2023 Pedagogical metacognition, or the reflective and reflexive actions associated with teaching practice, strengthens the planning, monitoring, evaluation, and adjustment of teaching in higher education faculty.
Audrey J. Tocco +4 more
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To Improve the Academy, 2023 The demands of current instructional realities for moving to completely online formats have led to dramatic changes in the ways that centers for teaching and learning serve their communities.
Caitlin P. DeClercq +3 more
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Focus on Outcomes: Fostering Systemic Departmental Improvements
To Improve the Academy, 2021 This article describes how a focus on outcomes can be a tool for guiding systemic change. By focusing on positive outcomes to be achieved, a group can guide its collective efforts toward an ideal future rather than becoming fixated on ...
Christopher Geanious +5 more
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