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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Jessica Enders COD's leaders support staff development to ensure its faculty, administrators, and staff are up-to-date on issues and teaching and learning strategies. Increased faculty communication and outreach began with the fruitful communications participants had with other members of the CCLP Roadrunner cohort.

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Using Peer Observation to enhance teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

It is also made explicit that the peer observation is only for staff development purposes and is not used for any review or assessment processes. The use of peer evaluation in promoting nursing faculty teaching effectiveness: a review of the literature. References Brown, B. & & Ward-Griffin, C.

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Roslin to Rodica: Strengthening research links in animal breeding and genomics

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Photo credit: pixabay, kimspirationalslove, CC0 In this post, Dr Gregor Gorjanc, a Chancellor’s Fellow in Data Driven Innovation for AgriTech at The Roslin Institute, describes his recent Go Abroad Staff experience in teaching animal breeding and genomics at the Animal Science Department (Rodica) of the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, (..)

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Enhancing the student learning experience via social media

Teaching Matters Online Learning

These included: how well organised it was; digital literacy and e-Professionalism among faculty and students; the accessibility of the online applications; and whether students were motivated or not to learn via social media. Some fundamental aspects needed for a successful pedagogic intervention via social media also emerged.

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Characterising teaching practices using lecture recordings

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Pedagogical practices and instructional change of physics faculty. The benefits of working on something so collaborative and disciplined, and the friends that were made in the process, have made this a more than worthwhile experience and one we would gladly recommend. References Dancy. and Henderson. American Journal of Physics. link] Mazur.

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An introduction to student and staff co-creation of the curriculum

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Engaging students as partners in learning and teaching: A guide for faculty. Higher Education, 71 (2), 195-208. doi:10.1007/s10734-015-9896-4 Cook-Sather, A., Bovill, C., & Felten, P. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass. Lubicz-Nawrocka, T. Students as partners in learning and teaching: The benefits of co-creation of the curriculum.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Before joining the faculty at ASU, he was a faculty member at Texas Tech, and prior to working in academia, Dr. Koricich spent several years as a software development manager at a large insurance company prior to his career in academia. Faculty don’t like it. Koricich earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education and a B.S.