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Fileborn, Bianca; Wood, Mark; Loughnan, Claire – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
Research on peer review to date has focused on its role as a formal compliance mechanism, a process for enhancing and developing teaching practice, and as a considerable source of anxiety for educators. In this paper, we draw on scholarly reflections from our experience of undertaking a reciprocal, formative peer review in an Australian higher…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Peer Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, College Faculty
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Lori E. Kniffin; Justin Greenleaf – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2023
This study is an appreciative inquiry (Cooperrider & Srivasta, 1987; Priest et al., 2013) into hybrid courses offered in Fall 2020, which included a combination of face-to-face and online elements. The courses in this study were part of an academic leadership studies program at Fort Hays State University and were taught in the hybrid format…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Undergraduate Students, Business Education, Student Attitudes
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Morgan, Ann M.; Jobe, Rebecca L.; Konopa, Juli K.; Downs, Lyda D. – Higher Learning Research Communications, 2022
Objectives: This study outlines the journey of an online university to evaluate faculty performance standards, key performance indicators, and systems for quality assurance using an appreciative inquiry summit model. The study reveals the power of "quality appreciation" as an approach that elicits a shared vision for quality definitions…
Descriptors: Virtual Universities, College Faculty, Faculty Evaluation, Standards
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Allen, Wendy B.; Ryan, Lori G.; Vlasin, Rebecca – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2023
The purpose of this paper is to share our pedagogical evolution as graduate faculty in relationship with increasingly diverse cohort communities of early childhood professionals learning across the landscape of leadership roles engaged with young children, families, and other adults. The early childhood leadership program described in this paper…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Leadership, Graduate Study, College Faculty
Duckins, Melody Antoinette – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A number of Western-based faculty travel abroad to China each year to teach university-level Chinese students (Ozturgut, 2007) including the researcher of this study. Western and Eastern cultural differences were a main factor attracting faculty, but also prompted the need for effective communication and awareness (Durant & Shepherd, 2009).…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cultural Differences, Western Civilization, North Americans
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Kay M. Hammond; Meenal Rai; Amira Hassouna; Sue Raleigh – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
Continuous increase of global reliance on sessional staff in higher education has not been accompanied by the development of strategies to enhance quality learning and teaching or understanding the experiences of these staff. This has resulted in a general discontent among this category of academics. The growing importance of building respectful…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Employment Practices, College Faculty, Temporary Employment
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Johnson, Bruce A. – Online Learning, 2014
The purpose of this case study was to explore the application and outcome of appreciative inquiry as an online instructional strategy for the development of three specific factors: adult learner motivation, engagement, and performance. Appreciative andragogy was an original phrase developed for this study and is an adaptation of appreciative…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Inquiry, Case Studies, Andragogy
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Starkey, Louise; Yates, Anne; de Roiste, Mairead; Lundqvist, Karsten; Ormond, Adreanne; Randal, John; Sylvester, Allan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
Disciplines in Higher Education have their own interpretations of what is essential knowledge that influences what is taught, how teaching occurs, and the role of digital tools. Disciplinary culture is dynamic and evolving, informed by disciplinary research and technology improvement. During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital solutions enabled ongoing…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, College Faculty, Educational Technology, Statistics
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Gribble, Lynn; Beckmann, Elizabeth A. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
University educators are encouraged to be innovative in their teaching practice, and are often recognised and rewarded for these innovations. However, the effective dissemination and consequent adoption of such innovations is still relatively ineffective, despite the development of diverse dissemination frameworks and strategies. The literature…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Instructional Innovation, Reflective Teaching
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Laura Cruz; Eileen Grodziak; Diana Botnaru; Deborah Walker; Trent W. Maurer; Alan Altany; Betty Abraham-Settles; Michelle Amos; Kimberly Bunch-Crump; Alan Cook; Heidi Eisenreich; Diana Gregory; Michael L. Howell; Ioney James; Shainaz Landge; Jane Lynes; Joyce Pompey; Brendan L. Shapiro; Allison Smith; Brenda Thomas; Felicity M. Turner; Ellen H. Williams; Robin Gerchman; Miiriam Horne; Richard Hughes; Alandra Kahl; Rebecca Layson; David X. Lemmons; Jeffrey A. Stone; Elizabeth VanDeusen; Yue Zhang – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
This is a large-scale, multi-author collaborative autoethnographic study exploring the concept of building a tangible teaching commons on the example of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons Conference. The project organizers sought to provide a big tent and extended an invitation to attendees to respond to a series of writing…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Conferences (Gatherings)
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Napan, Ksenija; Green, Jennifer K.; Thomas, Judith A.; Stent, Warwick J.; Jülich, Shirley J.; Lee, Debora; Patterson, Lynnemaree – Journal of Transformative Education, 2018
This research demonstrates that cooperative inquiry (CI) offers authentic opportunities for academics to transform their teaching, paving the way for additional collaborative practices in higher education across a range of disciplines. Using data from cycles of action and reflection, a multidisciplinary group of seven tertiary teachers committed…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, College Faculty
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Lawton, Megan – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2019
A definition of flipped learning by the Flipped Learning Network identifies 'The Four Pillars of F-L-I-P[TM]'; Flexible learning environment, a change in Learning cultures, Intentional content, and the Professional educator. This case study concentrates on the 'I' and 'P', intentional content and the professional educator. Appreciative Inquiry is…
Descriptors: Course Content, Teacher Role, Blended Learning, Student Attitudes
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Lane, Kathleen; Teng, Minnie Y.; Barnes, Steven J.; Moore, Katherine; Smith, Karen; Lee, Michael – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Appreciative inquiry (a research approach comprising four stages: Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny) was used at a research-intensive university to investigate which teaching practices positively influence student well-being (i.e., their health and quality of life). In a survey, undergraduate students were asked to select the teaching…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Teaching Methods, Well Being, Research Universities
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Bälter, Olle – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
A study of academics and professional staff engaged in the emerging field of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) reveal three areas of significant difference in reference to perspectives about TEL. These differences rest on the following individual characteristics: 1) research areas and competencies, 2) academic level, and 3) attitudes towards…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Teaching Methods, Technology Integration, Individual Characteristics
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Kadi-Hanifi, Karima; Dagman, Ozlem; Peters, John; Snell, Ellen; Tutton, Caroline; Wright, Trevor – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2014
Appreciative inquiry (AI) offers a constructive, strengths-based framework for engaging students and staff in the enhancement of academic programmes of study. This paper explores the basis of AI, its potential for educational development and the many agendas it might help address. Students and academic staff involved in an AI project, focused on…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Inquiry, Student Participation, Teacher Participation
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