In this article, I apply autoethnography to recount and analyze my experiences as a recent enrollee and course completer of a massive open online course (MOOC). Research surrounding MOOCs heretofore has been predominantly quantitative in nature, whereas this research utilizes a qualitative approach and offers a student's in-depth perspective.…

Blended learning has become a prominent method of course content delivery in higher education. Researchers have found that motivation, communication, and course design are three factors that contribute to the overall success of blended learning courses and students' satisfaction with blended learning courses. This qualitative study also found that…

In this article, the author focuses on bridging the gaps among research, innovation, and practice. First, the author reflects on historical perspectives involving the use of research to improve education and serve the public good. Second, the author explores the current climate as reflected by three national reports highlighting future roles of…

Market forces have driven American higher education from a public good regime to an academic capitalist regime. To examine how this regime shift influences the quality of business education in the US, we use field of specialty, institutional characteristics, demographics, and personal achievements to predict faculty income from inside and outside…

The Urban Professional Development School (PDS) Network represents a group of professional educators from a large, urban university and six public and private schools in the same metropolitan area committed to providing progressive models of professional development for teachers across the lifespan. This paper demonstrates how participants in this…

Emancipatory Pedagogies is the capstone experience for our Alternative Education Programs Licensure program. Employing non-traditional pedagogies, we taught Emancipatory Pedagogies for the first time in the summer of 2002. The reading list included several chapters from "The Paulo Freire Reader" (Freire and Macedo, 2001) and "We Make the Road by…

Colleges and universities are engaged in efforts to diversify their faculties, as faculty of color continue to be underrepresented in higher education. Challenging higher education to recognize the interplay between the cultural and social variables of education is an arduous process and warrants further investigation. The authors explore the…

Two methods utilizing multiple regression models and correlation values were used to determine whether faculty salaries at Ashland University (Ohio) reflected salary compression, an unusually small salary differential between junior and senior faculty. Salary compression was not found by either the suppressor effect method, which looked for a…

The faculty career is changing in response to external and internal pressures. Discusses pressures for institutional change, current faculty demographics, and possible institutional responses including modifications to traditional tenure systems (changes to the probationary period and time base of tenure, productivity concerns) and faculty career…

Arguments relevant to higher education institutions and their faculty are discussed for delaying versus going ahead with development of Web pages and their related technologies. A model is outlined for logical progression of educational Web development in four phases: experimentation, template development, reexamination and redevelopment, and…

Offers college faculty a "future proof" approach to staying in step with technological progress and choosing appropriate technologies to integrate into instruction. Discusses factors in technology planning: market dominance of a technology, ease of use, suitability as a medium for best practices in teaching and learning, technical assistance…

College faculty are pressured to use technology to improve teaching and achieve institutional goals but resist technology due to lack of time, funds, confidence, support staff, or accessibility. Over 30 concrete suggestions are offered for integrating technology into professional and teaching situations, including getting started, streamlining…

Only 14 of 41 applicants for a college faculty position submitted credentials that met two-thirds of advertised criteria. After initial screening, published research and positive teaching experiences weighed heavily in selecting candidates for interview. Final interviewees presented credentials clearly articulating their qualifications.…

Offers advice to prospective faculty concerning the questions they should ask about tenure and promotion procedures when they interview for a position. Strategies to enhance the likelihood of earning tenure and promotion include saving data to compile a vita, gathering student evaluations, publishing articles, scheduling time for research, and…

Analysis of 28,000 student evaluations of faculty in 46 departments of the University of Dayton. Overall instructor effectiveness was predicted most strongly by ratings on three items: instructor was prepared, presented subject matter clearly, and was interesting. Predictors of students perceiving they "learned a lot" were instructor was…