Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2011

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2011) 29: 233-245

doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0029.021

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Howard University’s Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CETLA) provides faculty development for more than fifteen hundred facuity. Yet it is CETLA’s students who make the difference. They are both the motivation for improving teaching and the means to that end. Students have contributed to everything from the design of CETLA’s infrastructure, to the implementation of instructional technologies, to the assessment of student learning. Meanwhile, supporting faculty development has contributed to the students’ own development. A cost-benefit analysis as well as survey data confirms that working with students at CETLA is a win-win opportunity for the university, faculty, students, and CETLA.

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