Faculty Development Research Roundtable

How do faculty development programs in higher education impact teaching practices and student learning? With changes to higher education teaching such as growing class size, diverse student needs, and technology integration, faculty development programs seem more crucial than ever. However, research into the effectiveness of faculty development programs has been limited. How can we create a framework to determine the most effective and appropriate programs? Join in this virtual roundtable discussion to begin a dialog about this important yet complex research question. Participants will be invited to form a multi-institution working group to pursue this and related grant opportunities. Sign-up today...Scheduled for Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 12:00 p.m. (noon) EST [1.5 hours].

Nine Characteristics of a Great Teacher

Teaching is hard work and some teachers never grow to be anything better than mediocre. They do the bare minimum required and very little more. The great teachers, however, work tirelessly to create a challenging, nurturing environment for their students. Great teaching seems to have less to do with our knowledge and skills than with our attitude toward our students, our subject, and our work. Read more...

Take the 10 Tools Challenge

For  2013 why not take up this professional development challenge.  This is how it works: Make a resolution to find out how to use 10 new tools this year (say one a month) and how they might help with your personal productivity, professional learning or development, or for use in education or training, or in the enterprise for performance support or workforce collaboration. Ready for the challenge!!! Learn more...

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Adapting PowerPoint Lectures for Online Delivery: Best Practices

If you use PowerPoint lectures in your face-to-face classes, you can use those same lectures as jumping-off points for creating narrated animations for your online students to watch. That’s the good news.
However, chances are you’ll need to make extensive changes — both to your existing PowerPoint slides, and to how you deliver them. Typically, this means scripting the lecture before narrating and recording. Read more...