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Mager, Gerald M.; Myers, Betty – Improving College and University Teaching, 1980
A personal approach to instructional development that uses teaching consultants is described and illustrated with anecdotes from the first year of one such service at a large midwestern university. This individualized approach emphasizes the particular needs, interests, and limitations of each teacher-client on a case-by-case basis. (JMD)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Consultation Programs, Faculty Development
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Erickson, Glenn R.; Erickson, Bette L. – Journal of Higher Education, 1979
Faculty and student ratings of improvement, taken late in a semester, were more positive for faculty participants in a teaching improvement program than for nonparticipants. A follow-up study of program users after one or more semesters substantiated these results, with apparent and durable improvements observed. (Author)
Descriptors: College Faculty, Consultation Programs, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Knapper, Christopher K. – 1978
This paper on instructional development notes the trend toward teaching improvement efforts, classifies instructional development centers in terms of their differing philosophies of operation, and identifies some general problems that have been encountered in institutional efforts to improve teaching and learning. Centers in North America, Europe,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Consultation Programs, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education