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Direct linkNeumann, Anna – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2005
What do we learn about interdisciplinary collaboration and faculty learning from the three cases presented in Chapters Three to Five? What ideas will higher education researchers, faculty development practitioners, academic leaders, and professors want to consider?
Descriptors: Faculty Development, College Faculty, Learning Theories, Intellectual Experience
Peer reviewedPaulsen, Michael B.; Feldman, Kenneth A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999
Research and theory suggest that college students' motivation to learn is related to their epistemological beliefs. Faculty can promote student motivation by designing learning activities that facilitate student development of more sophisticated epistemological beliefs. Faculty developers can assist in this by giving special attention to the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Epistemology
Peer reviewedGabelnick, Faith – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1986
Honors programs are reviewed that use diversity in presentation, approach, and educational context to foster intellectual development. They individualize instruction and encourage students both to form partnerships in learning and to develop their own strategies for integrating information. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Contracts, Curriculum Design, Educational Strategies
