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Shamash, Emily R.; Berrett-Abebe, Julie; Smith, LaTasha; Storms, Stephanie; Regan, Michael; Novella, Jocelyn; Grupp, Laurie L.; Smith, Emily; Martin, Alyson – To Improve the Academy, 2023
This article explores how one higher education faculty learning community engaged in reflective practices in pursuit of their commitment to the inclusion of anti-racist content and pedagogy across their multidisciplinary curriculums. As a key initial step in engaging in this collaborative, cross-disciplinary work, they set out to consider…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, Communities of Practice, Reflective Teaching
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Nasrollahian Mojarad, Sara; Cruz, Laura – To Improve the Academy, 2022
MegaSoTL projects are scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects that generate evidence of learning from multiple institutions. While being increasingly practiced, MegaSoTL projects and their potential contribution to improve higher education pedagogy remain understudied in higher education literature. In this article, we introduce…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Higher Education
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Erby, Kelly; Burdick, Melanie; Tutwiler, Sandra Winn; Petersen, Dan – To Improve the Academy, 2021
This study focuses on the lived experiences of nine university faculty who were attempting to implement inclusive teaching practices following university-sponsored faculty development. While the participants were each successful in their respective implementations, they all expressed anxiety at the beginning of the semester as well as at the end…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Inclusion, Instruction
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Addy, Tracie Marcella; Reeves, Philip M.; Dube, Derek; Mitchell, Khadijah A. – To Improve the Academy, 2021
Supporting instructor implementation of equitable and inclusive teaching approaches is a critical area of focus in educational development. However, there is limited empirical evidence on factors that either support or hinder instructors' implementation of inclusive teaching. The results of this national survey study reveal several predictors of…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Program Implementation
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Lovett, Marsha; Hershock, Chad – To Improve the Academy, 2020
A prominent goal of colleges and universities today is to enact data-driven teaching and learning. Faculty clearly play a key role, and yet they tend to have limited time, a lack of training in assessment or education research, and few incentives for engaging in this work. We describe a framework designed to address the practical and cultural…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Data Analysis, Systems Approach, Lesson Plans
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Jacobson, Wayne; Cole, Renee – To Improve the Academy, 2020
Significant progress has been made in understanding science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and ways it can be improved, but propagation of change remains a challenge. This study presents an analysis of STEM faculty responses to open-text survey questions that asked them to identify motivations and obstacles to making…
Descriptors: STEM Education, College Faculty, Barriers, Teaching Methods
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Schoening, Anne M.; Oliver, Sarah – To Improve the Academy, 2016
In an era of limited fiscal and human resources, educational developers are seeking innovative ways to connect with their constituents. Developing a "virtual" center for teaching and learning (CTL) is one approach to consolidating development resources and reaching busy full-time and adjunct faculty. This article will describe the…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Social Media, Instructional Innovation, Partnerships in Education
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Andersen, Kent; Lom, Barbara; Sandlin, Betsy A. – To Improve the Academy, 2016
One goal of faculty development is to improve instructional practice (McKee, Johnson, Ritchie, & Tew, 2013; Ouellett 2010; Sorcinelli, Austin, Eddy, & Beach, 2006). This goal accords with the design of the Associated Colleges of the South Teaching and Learning Workshop, a faculty development workshop begun in 1992 for 16 residential,…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Faculty Development, Workshops, Higher Education
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Artze-Vega, Isis; Richardson, Leslie; Traxler, Adrienne – To Improve the Academy, 2014
As college student populations grow increasingly diverse, centers for teaching and learning are often charged with promoting inclusive teaching practices. Yet faculty cite many affective barriers to diversity training, and we often preach to the choir. These challenges led us to seek alternate routes for diversity programming, and stereotype…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Diversity (Institutional), Inclusion, Educational Practices