To Improve the Academy: Resources for Faculty, Instructional, and Organizational Development, Volume 32

James E. Groccia · Laura Cruz

Sep 2013 · John Wiley & Sons

About this ebook

An annual publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD), To Improve the Academy offers a resource for improvement in higher education to faculty and instructional development staff, department chairs, faculty, deans, student services staff, chief academic officers, and educational consultants.

Contents include:

• Evidence-based changes in faculty and organizational development
• Creative collaboration between faculty and technologists
• Integrating research on teaching and learning and the practice of teaching
• Formal and informal support for pretenure faculty
• Strategies to support senior faculty
• Faculty development and productivity
• Using e-portfolios in hybrid professional development
• Developing a faculty learning community grounded in the science of how people learn
• Assessing the long-term impact of a professional development program
• An analysis of faculty development scholarship
• Program planning, prioritizing, and improvement
• A consultations tracking database system for improving faculty development consultation services
• Graduate assistant development
• Using undergraduates to prepare international teaching assistants for the American classroom
• Tracking perceptions of preparation for future faculty competencies
• Student consultants of color and faculty members working together toward culturally sustaining pedagogy
• Measuring student learning to document faculty teaching effectiveness
• Learning with mobile apps
• Slow pedagogy, curriculum, assessment, and professional development
• Principles of video games that can enhance teaching
• The Reacting to the Past pedagogy and engaging the first-year student

About the author

James E. Groccia, former president of POD, was the founding director of the Biggio Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning and is professor of higher education administration at Auburn University.

Laura Cruz is director of the Coulter Faculty Commons and associate professor of history at Western Carolina University.