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Core Curriculum Revision at TCU: How Faculty Created and Are Maintaining the TCU Core Curriculum
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McNertney, Edward; Ferrandino, Blaise – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
The initiative to revise Texas Christian University's (TCU) general education curriculum was one of the outcomes of an institutional strategic planning process in 2000, the Commission on the Future of TCU. Coincident with this planning process, TCU developed a new institutional mission statement that focused on preparing students for becoming…
Descriptors: Core Curriculum, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, General Education
Introduction to Faculty Learning Communities
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Cox, Milton D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2004
Faculty learning communities create connections for isolated teachers, establish networks for those pursuing pedagogical issues, meet early-career faculty expectations for community, foster multidisciplinary curricula, and begin to bring community to higher education. The following are appended: (1) Qualities Necessary for Community in FLCs; and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, College Faculty, Faculty Development, Surveys
Making Self-Authorship a Goal of Core Curricula: The Earth Sustainability Pilot Project
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Bekken, Barbara; Marie, Joan – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Making self-authorship a goal of an interdisciplinary multisemester general education program shows great promise for meeting desired undergraduate learning outcomes for citizen-learners. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, General Education, Outcomes of Education, College Students
Institutional Improvement and Motivated Faculty: A Case Study.
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Farmer, Donald W. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999
Describes the shift at King's College (Pennsylvania) from a teaching-centered to a learning-centered campus culture. Issues discussed include the curriculum redesign process, strategies used for developing trust and sustaining change, creating leadership for change, and strategies for motivating faculty. A survey of faculty concerning motivation…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Curriculum, College Environment
Learning Community Models.
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Gabelnick, Faith; MacGregor, Jean; Matthews, Roberta S.; Smith, Barbara Leigh – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1990
Describes and compares five major types of college learning-community curricular models: linked courses; learning clusters; freshman interest groups; federated learning communities; and coordinated studies. Characteristics of each model are outlined concerning institution size, basic unit of instruction, number of students involved, faculty roles,…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Faculty, College Freshmen, College Role
Academic Service Learning: A Counternormative Pedagogy.
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Howard, Jeffrey P. F. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Explores academic service learning as an innovative pedagogical model capable of transforming traditional teaching and learning practices. Notes that faculty undertaking this challenge can expect initial resistance from students, periodic self-doubt about their teaching accomplishments, and colleagues' skepticism, but also renewed student…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Instruction, Curriculum Design
Problem-Based Learning in Business Education: Curriculum Design and Implementation Issues.
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Stinson, John E.; Milter, Richard G. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1996
Drawing on 11 years' experience with a problem-based learning master's in business education program, educators at Ohio University identify critical issues in implementation of the approach, including definition of goals, elements of the curriculum development process, problem design and method of extracting learning, the teacher's role, skills…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classroom Techniques, College Faculty, College Instruction