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Colby, Susan A.; Cruz, Laura; Cordaro, Danielle; Cruz, Clare – To Improve the Academy, 2022
Faculty fellows have long served as a staple of centers for teaching and learning (CTLs), but to date little to no evidence has been gathered regarding their broader impact. The current study provides a snapshot of U.S.-based faculty fellows programs today, based on a comprehensive review of CTL websites. We categorize faculty fellows programs…
Descriptors: Teacher Centers, Educational Development, Fellowships, Faculty Development
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Cruz, Laura; Huxtable-Jester, Karen; Smentkowski, Brian; Springborg, Martin – To Improve the Academy, 2021
This study seeks to explore the physical spaces centers for teaching and learning (CTLs) occupy; with an emphasis on gaining a better picture of what CTL spaces look like; where they are located; how they developed: and what these spaces represent. We gathered visual, empirical, and qualitative data to take the first steps towards developing a…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Faculty Development, College Faculty, Teacher Centers
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Cruz, Laura; Cunningham, Kathryn; Smentkowski, Brian; Steiner, Hillary – To Improve the Academy, 2019
This article presents a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) scaffold, a conceptual model designed for educational developers (and others) who support the values, practices, and production of the SoTL, both on their campuses and beyond. The SoTL scaffold explicates distinct support levels, ranging from spark to lead, each of which call for…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Educational Development, Concept Formation
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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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Cruz, Laura; Rosemond, LaNise – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2017
This article provides a review of the literature on coaching in higher education and how the practice connects with the past, present, and future of the field of educational development. As the field shifts its focus from individual faculty to organizational change, the authors highlight the potential of coaching to play an integrative role in…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Educational Development, Higher Education, Teaching Methods