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Volume 15

Volume 15 (1996) To Improve the Academy
Section I: Instructional Development
Through the Lens of Learning: How Experiencing Difficult Learning Challenges and Changes Assumptions about Teaching
Stephen Brookfield
On Student Development in College: Evidence from the National Study of Student Learning
Ernest T. Pasacarella
What Every Faculty Developer Needs to Know About Learning Groups
Larry K. Michaelsen, L. Dee Fink, and Robert H. Black
Computer-mediated Communication in the Classroom: Models for Enhancing Student Learning
Karin L. Sandell, Robert K. Stewart, and Candace K. Stewart
Dan Tries Problem-Based Learning: A Case Study
Harold B. White, III
Section II: Faculty Development
Monitoring the Pulse of the Faculty: Needs Assessment in Faculty Development Programs
Jon E. Travis, Dan Hursh, Gentry Lankewicz, and Li Tang
Who Uses Faculty Development Services?
Nancy Van Note Chism and Barbala Szabo
Professors as Clients for Instructional Development
Ronald A. Smith and George L. Geis
Innovative Teaching and Teaching Improvement
Joyce Povlacs Lunde and Myra S. Wilhite
Experiences of Newly Hired Faculty
Robert J. Menges
Section III: Organizational Development
Moving Towards a University Environment Which Rewards Teaching: The Faculty Developer’s Role
Delivee L. Wright
Transforming Faculty into an Agile Workforce
Robert Dove and Dina Wills
Making the Transition from Soft to Hard Funding: The Politics of Institutional Instructional Development Programs
Mary L. Everley and Jan Smith
Designing, Implementing and Assessing a University Technology-Pedagogy Institute
Devorah A. Lieberman and John Reuter
Establishing a Community of Conversation: Creating a Context for Self-Reflection among Teacher Scholars
Victoria Harper
Partners in Pedagogy: Faculty Development through the Scholarship of Teaching
Gabriele B. Sweidel
A Department-Based Approach to Developing Teaching Portfolios: Perspectives for Faculty Developers
Milton D. Cox