Tag Archives: faculty-development

Why All Faculty Members Should Blog

So much to blog, so little time. There have been a few interesting responses to the “Sisyphus Taught Videography” post. For example, in a comment on that post, MIDizen X observes that students can be the producers of the media:

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Sisyphus Taught Videography

One of these days I’m going to have to figure out how to tweak my blog’s CSS so that I can get my SUNY-specific blogroll section up. In the meantime, I’m going to keep pointing to SUNY bloggers from time … Continue reading

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Experience as a Distance Learning Teacher Makes You a Better Classroom Teacher

According to a faculty satisfaction study [DOC] conducted by SLN, a whopping 85% of their faculty reported that their experience as online teachers “will have a positive effect on their classroom instruction.” Here is their explanation for their findings:

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Outstanding (and Practical) Learning Styles Research Paper

This piece [PDF] from the Learning Research Centre is one of the finest educational research articles I have read in a long time. To begin with, their literature review of the research to-date is superb. They break down each major … Continue reading

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Two Thirds of Faculty for Online Courses Receive No Pedagogy Training

According to this survey, a lot of universities still don’t get that teaching online involves more than knowing which buttons to click. Right now the administrations probably don’t have to care; the demand for distance learning (even weak distance learning) … Continue reading

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