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Handbook of College and University Teaching: A Global Perspective presents international perspectives on critical issues impacting teaching and learning in diverse higher education environments, all with a unique global view. The need to understand learning and teaching from multiple cultural perspectives has become critically important in educating the next generation of college students. Education experts from around the world share their perspectives on college and university teaching, illuminating international differences and similarities. The chapters are organized around a model developed by James Groccia, which focuses on seven interrelated variables, including teacher, learner, learning process, learning context, course content, instructional processes, and learning outcomes. Using this logical model as the organizational structure of the book provides a guide for systemic thinking about what actions one should take, or suggest others take, when planning activities to improve teaching and learning, curriculum development, and assessment.
Sustaining and Championing Teaching and Learning: In Good Times or Bad
Sustaining and Championing Teaching and Learning: In Good Times or Bad
As universities put more focus on improving teaching and learning processes, outcomes, and strategies, the stakes have become higher for those working as academic, educational, and faculty developers. Universities are expecting increasing levels of performance, accountability, and strategic interaction from their academic development groups as competition for students escalates. Financial and policy shifts have influenced the environment in which teaching and learning operates, and by implication, the positioning of academic development. In some cases, the academic development center is seen as critical to the university's strategy, whereas in others, whole centers have been disbanded, based on the judgment that ...
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