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Lori Ann Mumpower – To Improve the Academy, 2025
The Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) created a Small Teaching Challenge, leveraging department chairpersons to encourage faculty adoption of evidence-based, small teaching practices. Inspired by James Lang's "Small Teaching" (2016) and previous collaborations with department…
Descriptors: Department Heads, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice
William V. Pilny; Benjamin Brock; Stephanie Laggini Fiore – To Improve the Academy, 2023
In times of crises, educational developers (EDs) work to ameliorate the teaching- and learning-related impacts caused by campus-wide disruptions such as health-related emergencies, mass shootings, and environmental disasters. These incidents may impact the personal-psychological factors and processes of EDs that, in turn, influence their…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Development, Psychological Patterns, Role
Sarah McCorkle; William O'Brochta; Cathy Box; Mary-Catherine Dean – To Improve the Academy, 2024
Faculty members impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic inadvertently participated in a historic, widespread, and rapidly occurring educational development phenomenon: the global shift toward emergency remote teaching. We surveyed faculty members (n = 502) at four different institutions (a community college and a small, medium-sized, and large…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Practices, College Faculty
Felten, Peter; Chick, Nancy – To Improve the Academy, 2018
In this article, we focus on questions that come into view when we look at educational development through the lenses of signature pedagogies and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). We offer this as a thought experiment in which we consider if SoTL is a signature pedagogy of educational development, simultaneously enacting and…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Educational Development, Learning Processes, Educational Practices
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
Torosyan, Roben; Cook-Sather, Alison – To Improve the Academy, 2018
In this article we present 4 dimensions of transformative facilitation, each conceptualized using the "wisdom of practice" (Weimer, 2006, p. 54) gathered through our experience facilitating educational development and through the experiences posted by participants in a POD Network conference session. Composed of theoretical underpinnings…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Conferences (Gatherings), College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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
Springborg, Martin; Horii, Cassandra V. – To Improve the Academy, 2016
This invited essay of "To Improve the Academy's" special feature on Creative Scholarship presents one example of creative scholarship in educational development as a forward to other forms and approaches in the special feature. This example, the Teaching and Learning Project, merges documentary and art photography traditions with faculty…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Scholarship, Visual Arts, Consultation Programs
Lisi, Bethany – To Improve the Academy, 2016
Having insider status at an organization under study can present a researcher with benefits and challenges. Insider researchers may have access to honest dialogue with study participants but may also be vulnerable to uncomfortable conversations and organizational conflicts. Insider researchers also have to contend with their own biases they bring…
Descriptors: Experimenter Characteristics, Journal Writing, Educational Development, Transformative Learning