scholarly journals New Faculty's Perception of Faculty Development Initiatives at Small Teaching Institutions

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditi Puri ◽  
Daren Graves ◽  
Arlene Lowenstein ◽  
Lily Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Terminal Degree ◽  
Development Initiatives ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hygiene Theory

New faculty at small teaching institutions experience varied challenges related to navigation of three academic pillars: teaching, scholarship, and service. New faculty are often not prepared by doctoral or terminal degree granting institutions for faculty roles. This increases the responsibility of the hiring institution to introduce new faculty to the academic culture and provide development opportunities aimed at promoting academic success. For the purpose of this study seventeen faculty members, employed between one and three years at four northeastern USA colleges, were recruited for interviews. The Motivation-Hygiene Theory was applied to study the impact of challenges, barriers, and facilitators on faculty satisfaction with faculty development initiatives. The qualitative results emphasize a need for institutions to enhance the new faculty development initiatives: comprehensive new faculty orientations, ongoing teaching and learning workshops, mentoring programs, and other methods to facilitate the transition of faculty to the new academic position.

E-Transformation in Higher Education and What It Coerces for the Faculty

2019 ◽  
pp. 355-378
Author(s):  
Ela Akgün-Özbek ◽  
Ali Ekrem Özkul
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact

With the phenomenal developments in information and communication technologies, higher education has been facing an unprecedented challenge that affects all the stakeholders. Faculty is no exception. The authors synthesize the demographic, economic, and pedagogical factors that lead to a paradigm shift in higher education and the global trends in digital technologies that impel digital transformation in higher education. They then provide a snapshot of how higher education institutions respond to this challenge and change, and the impact of these factors on the roles and competencies of faculty that need to be covered in faculty development initiatives in the digital age. Finally, examples of faculty development programs and initiatives that address the digital competencies of faculty are provided along with a summary of faculty development models for teaching and learning in the digital age.

Understanding the Links between Mentoring and Self-Efficacy in the New Generation of Women STEM Scholars

2010 ◽  
pp. 97-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Yost ◽  
Donna M. Handley ◽  
Shelia R. Cotten ◽  
Vicki Winstead
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
National Study ◽  
Stem Fields ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Gender Inequity ◽  
Mentoring Practices ◽  
Using Data ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The Impact

American colleges and universities are in need of innovative approaches to recruit and retain the upcoming generation of new faculty members. Specifically within the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fields, there is an additional need to focus on meeting the needs of women in order to begin to address gender inequity within STEM. This chapter examines the impact of mentoring on self-efficacy for female graduate students and post doctoral fellows in STEM fields. Using data from a national study of selected U.S. academic institutions, recommendations are made in order to enhance mentoring practices that will reduce the barriers women face within STEM fields. Quality mentoring programs represent a viable way to enhance institutional change that may result in increased numbers of women in STEM fields.

scholarly journals Collaboration between faculty members and the Center for teaching and learning at Polytechnique Montreal

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastassis Kozanitis ◽  
Lina Forest
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Full Time ◽  
New Faculty ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Orientation Training ◽  
The Impact

The Center for teaching and learning at Polytechnique Montreal (PM) was created in 1977. Its mission is to encourage and help instructors to improve their teaching, and ultimately, contribute to improve student learning at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Among its many activities, the CTL provides a compulsory orientation, training, and integration program for new faculty members; offers consultations, workshops, and conferences; manages grants for pedagogical initiatives; and conducts house studies on pedagogical or academic issues. With time, CTL has had the opportunity to collaborate with PM leaders and faculty members, on a number of issues. For example, it has conducted house studies on the following topics: students’ learning strategies; students’ motivation to learn within different pedagogies (project-based; e-learning; traditional lecturing); three year follow-up study on the impact the revised programs have had on student learning and retention. CTL has published many articles whether in scientific or professional journals. CTL encourages and provides support for faculty members that publish in general or discipline specific engineering education journals. PM also funds and conducts engineering education research projects with the MATI (Maison des Technologie, house of technologies), specifically on the use of technology in the classroom and innovative pedagogy. MATI is a three-way partnership between HEC Montreal, University of Montreal and PM. They are currently working on the e-portfolio for the development of professional attributes in engineering. PM has also created a new category of instructors, called “chargé d’enseignement”. Their job is to teach full time at the undergraduate level. What sets them apart from ordinary part time instructors is that they must conduct research on their teaching, and actively participate in engineering education conferences. Finally, PM is contemplating allocating a chair for the scholarship of teaching and learning. This chair would be under a faculty member’ responsibility, and would help fund research on engineering education. It would also allow hiring PhD and master’s degree students.

scholarly journals The Impact of Teachers' Personality on Students' Academic Achievement in Pakistan.

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (III) ◽  
pp. 92-102
Author(s):  
Shaista Noreen ◽  
Akhtar Ali ◽  
Uzma Munawar
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Impact

Teachers personality plays a significant role in accomplishing students educational achievement. Teaching and learning have a major part in creating a friendly and encouraging learning environment for students. In this context, the current research was conducted to explore the influence of tutors character on pupils learning and accomplishment. It was a descriptive correlative research approach. The sample comprised of 1,152 teachers and 2,304 students of 10th grade of public and private secondary schools who were chosen through a cluster sampling technique. The respondents were taken from 12 districts of Punjab, Pakistan. Two questionnaires; one for teachers and one for students were used to collect data. Teachers questionnaires were based on an adapted personality measure scale of John and Srivastavas Big Five Inventory (1999). The statistical analysis displayed no significant rapport among teachers personality and pupils academic success. The regression analysis and correlation coefficient showed that the dimension of agreeableness, extroversion, neuroticism, and conscientiousness has no correlation with students performance. However, openness has a significant correlation between students performance.

scholarly journals Faculty Development Initiatives at the College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 271
Author(s):  
Nadia Al Wadry
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Faculty Development ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Teaching Competencies ◽  
Special Contribution ◽  
Sultan Qaboos University ◽  
Short Courses ◽  
The Impact

Faculty development is necessary to improve and update teaching and learning methodologies. As such, a variety of learning activities have been designed to improve teaching competencies of individual teachers. The College of Medicine & Health Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, recognised the need for teacher training in order to bring faculty up-to-date in teaching and assessment methodologies. A programme of regular and one-time interventions consisting of short courses, workshops and a series of lectures was offered. Feedback from the participants and facilitators led to programme expansion and enhancement. This special contribution discusses the impact of the programme on faculty and the college.Keywords: Teacher Training; Medical Education; Oman.

scholarly journals Assessing the Higher Education Settings after the Transition to Online Learning: Exploring Teaching, Assessments, and Students’ Academic Success

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 159-173
Author(s):  
Nahla Moussa
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Online Mode ◽  
The Impact

This empirical research report intended to explore the impact of the sudden transition to online learning and teaching and assessment at higher education institutions in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Furthermore, the study assessed the difference in students’ academic achievement and their perception of the transition to online learning. A mixed-method research design was adopted to achieve the purpose of this research paper. Content analysis, the Correlation Coefficient, and Simple Linear Regression were supportive analysis tools. Data analysis proved that the higher education system in the UAE embraced appropriate teaching and assessment approaches to the online mode of teaching and learning. Moreover, higher education students maintained high academic success after transitioning to online learning. Students’ perception of the transition to online learning positively correlated to students’ academic success. Thus, higher education students maintained a decent level of academic success after transitioning to the online mode of learning.

scholarly journals FORMAL COURSE DESIGN AND THE STUDENT LEARNING EXPERIENCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Brown ◽  
Carrie B. Myers ◽  
Sharon Roy
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Development ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Course Design ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Washington State University ◽  
The Impact

What impact does collaboration between faculty and professional course designers have on the student learning experience? As the use of technologies increases, educational institutions have to find ways of identifying and addressing expectations about how technologies can best be incorporated into the teaching and learning experiences. This paper reports on efforts at Washington State University to develop and assess the course design and faculty development process and the impact the process has on student learning experiences. The results of a comprehensive set of faculty and student surveys from five groups suggest that the systematic course design process improves students’ opportunities for faculty-student interaction, student-student interaction, and other elements associated with best practice. The implications of this study for faculty development and policy implementation are discussed.

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