Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
1995
Citation
Essays on Teaching Excellence" Toward the Best in the Academy (1994-1995) 6(6)
A publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Abstract
After national calls for the reform of undergraduate education were made a decade ago, students, parents, and legislators began to apply pressure to reestablish the importance of student learning. More recently, central administrators have begun to change reward structures. University-wide community is beginning to be built around teaching. New disciplinary journals that publish the scholarship of teaching are being started, and established ones are gaining respect. National teaching conferences and journals that provide a forum for the scholarship of teaching are expanding. With these emerging opportunities, faculty are going public about their interest in teaching and learning. Over the last five years, this pentup desire has given rise to a rush of ideas and theories for improving the teaching-learning connection, which now can be tried and studied as we move toward the 21st century.
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Higher Education and Teaching Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons
Comments
Copyright 1995, Milton D. Cox. Used by permission