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Direct linkCesare Giulio Ardito – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This chapter presents a critical analysis of generative AI (GenAI) detection tools in higher education assessments. The rapid advancement and widespread adoption of GenAI, particularly in education, necessitates a reevaluation of traditional academic integrity mechanisms. I explore the effectiveness, vulnerabilities, and ethical implications of AI…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education, Identification
Johnson, Benjamin A.; Arocho, Rachel; Tolman, Anton O. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2023
This article focuses on professional development by exploring two faculty education programs that create opportunities for faculty to learn best practices for mentoring students in scholarly work. These programs promote the inclusion of diverse and underrepresented student populations in research experiences; help faculty develop as effective,…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Program Design
Marquis, Elizabeth; Ahmad, Arshad – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This chapter describes three research-informed SoTL initiatives undertaken at the McMaster Institute for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning and presents preliminary evidence of their impact on teaching, learning, and SoTL.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Program Effectiveness, Scholarship
Moskal, Patsy D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter examines the importance of evaluating hybrid courses for their impact on faculty, students, and the institution. Research on best practices in hybrid courses is discussed and examples provided.
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Outcomes of Education, Course Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
Miller-Young, Janice; Yeo, Michelle; Manarin, Karen; Carey, Miriam; Zimmer, Jim – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This chapter briefly describes the SoTL research development program and context at Mount Royal University, reports initial results from a study of the program's impact on participants' teaching and scholarly activities, and situates the findings regarding individual impact, department-level impact, institution-level impact, and discipline-level…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Instruction, Learning, Higher Education
Fink, L. Dee – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
During the past few decades, faculty developers within the United States and internationally have steadily become more aware of the need to do a better job of assessing their programs. They are part of institutions of higher education that are also growing more aware that they not only need to "support" learning by professors and students but they…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Colleges, Faculty Development, Program Evaluation
Sanders, Linda A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
As a lifelong theater artist and educator, as well as practitioner of a variety of meditative techniques, this author has been keenly interested in the potential impact of sitting meditation and other contemplative practices on acting, vocal, and movement training in college and university performing arts departments. For many years, she wondered…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Masters Programs, Fine Arts, Theater Arts
Zrull, Mark C.; Rocheleau, Courtney A.; Smith, M. Corinne; Bergman, Shawn M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
This article focuses on curriculum-based learning communities (LCs). In these LCs, manipulation of the curriculum is intentional and often innovative, with the overarching goals of developing meaningful connections among students, between students and faculty, and between students and their coursework. The variety of curriculum-based models…
Descriptors: College Students, Communities of Practice, Intellectual Disciplines, Curriculum Enrichment
Love, Anne Goodsell – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
This article discusses the growth and current state of learning communities (LCs) in higher education. It reviews literature on the impact of LCs, highlighting a sample of single-institution studies and describing results from multi-institutional studies. LCs have been a growing movement aimed at educational reform for decades, and evidence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Evidence, Educational Change
Grills, Cheryl N.; Fingerhut, Adam W.; Thadani, Vandana; Machon, Ricardo Arturo – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Learning communities have increasingly become a mechanism for education reform in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education. Recognizing that learning occurs both inside and outside the classroom, their emergence is partly a response to the critique that undergraduate education at American research universities lacks integrated and…
Descriptors: Living Learning Centers, Psychology, Undergraduate Study, College Programs
Levy, Philippa – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
A number of universities in the United Kingdom (UK) have launched institution-wide initiatives recently to embed inquiry and research more firmly into the student experience. Among these, the Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences (CILASS) led a five-year development program at The University of Sheffield (TUOS) between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
Smith, Janet – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Since the first Circle of Trust retreat was offered in 2005, the Center for Courage & Renewal (CCR) and other individual facilitators across the United States, Canada, and Australia have continued to offer many cross-professional retreats, as they have proven extremely popular. They are designed for people from any profession who want to…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, Program Effectiveness
Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Lee, Virginia S. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Inquiry-guided learning (IGL) has widespread appeal in higher education as a suite of teaching strategies that promotes learning through students' increasingly independent investigation of questions, problems, and issues using the methods of inquiry of the disciplines. Framed as especially appropriate for research universities, IGL has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Implementation
Miranda, Twyla T. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
What is transformative professional development for educators? Ideally, teachers and school leaders are given multiple opportunities to revisit schemas about themselves and their learning communities, with the intent to transform practice, the school environment, and even themselves. In practice, three cohorts of teachers and school leaders…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Professional Development, Educational Change, Transformative Learning
