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Korsnack, Kylie; Ortquist-Ahrens, Leslie – To Improve the Academy, 2021
When the global pandemic forced campuses across the United States to send students home in March 2020, instructors were thrown into triage mode, forced to rapidly transition their on-the-ground classroom curriculum to a format that could be completed remotely by students spread out across the country. At the same time, centers for teaching and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Private Colleges
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Wright, Mary C.; Lohe, Debra Rudder; Pinder-Grover, Tershia; Ortquist-Ahrens, Leslie – To Improve the Academy, 2018
We offer a framework for guiding an effective Center for Teaching and Learning: Responsiveness, Relationships, Resources, and Research. Our intention is to fill a gap in the literature on guidance for CTL leadership. These four principles are grounded in both scholarly and experiential evidence, drawing from multiple CTL directors with a range of…
Descriptors: Resource Centers, Educational Development, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics
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Ortquist-Ahrens, Leslie – To Improve the Academy, 2016
Scholarship about the growth of educational development has charted major shifts in developers' focuses and roles through time and, especially in recent years, has explored the professionalization of the field around the globe. This essay uses a lifecycle analogy to consider the development of one organization, the POD Network (The Professional…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Organizational Development, Higher Education, Networks