The Engine Room of Instruction: Small Group Teaching

Politics ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Wood ◽  
Michael Moran
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Small Group Teaching ◽  
Mass Higher Education ◽  
Engine Room ◽  
Changing Role

The changing role of tutorials and tutors in an age of mass higher education is sketched. The differing purposes of small group teaching are explored; small groups are shown to have a variety of academic and pastoral functions. The mechanics of tutorial organisation are explored and the range of teaching formats examined.

scholarly journals THE CHANGING ROLE OF FACULTY AND ONLINE EDUCATION

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Turoff
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Degree Programs ◽  
Academic Quality ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Promotion And Tenure ◽  
Will Force ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
The U.S

Environmental forces influencing the future of higher education in the U.S. threaten to undermine the desirable role of faculty as arbiters of academic quality. For online learning to live up to its potential, institutional policies can return academic authority to faculty over degree programs in all modes and support the importance of education in promotion and tenure processes. Accreditation agencies traditionally have been a service to the institutions and the administration at higher education institutions; they will also have to become an equal service to the consumer of higher education. Consumerism will force all those concerned with the quality and utility of a higher education to focus on the quality and effectiveness of the instructors.

scholarly journals Voices from the Field

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Holland ◽  
Andrew Seligsohn ◽  
Ted Howard
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Sustainable Change ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Student Body ◽  
Campus Compact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Changing Role

Urban and metropolitan areas face unique challenges in serving the multifaceted needs of their communities, but also have advantages that create some of the world’s greatest universities. Three scholars opened the 2017 CUMU Annual Conference with “Voices from the Field.” Each spoke to the changing role of urban-serving institutions and the place-based advantages CUMU members have in enriching their communities while strengthening the universities’ core commitments. CUMU advisor Barbara A. Holland, Holland Consulting, described the changing role of higher education and highlighted the distinct and powerful advantages urban-based higher education institutions have in shaping the success of the metropolitan areas they collectively serve. Ted Howard, The Democracy Collaborative, encouraged universities to move beyond current place-making initiatives and to adopt The Anchor Mission, distilling lessons from CUMU members who are pioneering new approaches to anchor mission work to have greater impacts on their institutions and communities. Andrew Seligsohn, Campus Compact, reflected on the inter-connected nature of two of higher education’s missions: (a) educating students for democracy; and (b) carrying out their anchor mission, as well as the impact of a civically-engaged student body on creating sustainable change in our communities.

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