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Jessica Taggart; Lindsay B. Wheeler; Kenn Dela Cruz – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2024
This chapter describes the development, implementation, and assessment of an intensive Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Scholars program grounded in self-determination theory. These findings provide one of the first integrations of theory into studying the impact of SoTL and can support educational developers with SoTL initiatives at…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Scholarship, College Faculty
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Rowe, Erica L.; Zamiela, Sarah M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2023
The purpose of this article is to describe the creation and implementation of a faculty student mentoring program at an accelerated school of pharmacy, and to review 'best practices' relating to mentoring programs.
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Pharmaceutical Education, Health Personnel
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Mitchell, Anne Bradley; Ankam, Nethra; Umland, Elena; Earland, Tracey Vause; Dallas, Sarah; Ukanna, Aniekan – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020
This chapter explores the development of the Jefferson Health Mentors Program over the past decade and the challenges and solutions to continue to provide a relevant interprofessional curriculum.
Descriptors: Interprofessional Relationship, Health Education, Mentors, Program Development
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Flinders, Brooke A.; Dameron, Matthew; Kava, Katherine – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This chapter discusses a three-tiered undergraduate service-learning program as a collaborative leadership structure, incorporating high-impact practices.
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Service Learning, Leadership, Cooperation
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Cox, Milton D. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This chapter describes four new leadership areas in the development of faculty learning community programs and provides perspectives and resources that these leaders can use to engage their work.
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Faculty Development, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Cavanagh, Thomas B.; Thompson, Kelvin; Futch, Linda – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2017
This chapter describes important considerations for higher education administrators and other leaders as they design, develop, and implement a comprehensive hybrid learning initiative.
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Blended Learning, Instructional Design, Instructional Development
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Evenbeck, Scott; Merians, Linda E. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This chapter describes some of the major principles, practices, and processes involved in designing and founding a new community college dedicated to improving student outcomes by doing things differently.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Student Improvement, Educational Change, College Planning
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DuFon, Margaret A.; Christian, Jennifer – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
This chapter recounts the development of faculty and student groups whose purposes are to promote mindfulness and contemplative pedagogy on the California State University-Chico campus through work both on the campus and in the greater Chico community. The "Mindful Campus" a student organization formed in 2011, merged with the…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Metacognition, Student Organizations, Campuses
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Oxenford, Carolyn; Summerfield, Liane; Schuchert, Michael – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
Marymount University is a midsized, independent Catholic university whose mission combines a liberal arts foundation with career preparation and opportunities for personal and professional development. The university is moderately selective with a highly diverse undergraduate student population. Approximately half of Marymount undergraduates are…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, College Instruction, Catholic Schools
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Donovan, Timothy; Porter, Richard; Stellar, James – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2010
The concept of experiential learning, in one form or another, has been around a long time, some would say going back to Confucius. More recently, however, within the United States it was put into practice in a very aggressive form, cooperative education, created by Herman Schneider and initiated at the University of Cincinnati (UC) in 1906.…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, College Programs, Cooperative Education, Program Development
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Devine, Sharon Mayne; Daly, Kerry; Lero, Donna; MacMartin, Clare – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, which is offered at the University of Guelph, is an interdisciplinary department that previously offered three undergraduate majors: child, youth, and family; applied human nutrition; and gerontology; as well as graduate programs at the master's and doctoral levels. Several factors have precipitated a review…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Gerontology, Nutrition Instruction, Family Life Education
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Levin, Eve – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2008
Under the auspices of the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID), the Department of History at the University of Kansas recast its doctoral program to emphasize career preparation. Its creative approach has earned the department national visibility. In this article, the author describes how the department came to reenvision graduate education,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, History Instruction, Educational Change, Career Development
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Painter, Sonny L.; Bailey, Rebecca; Gilbert, Melinda; Prior, John – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2006
SI can expand past the boundaries of on-campus review sessions. This chapter examines how SI can be implemented in university teaching-learning centers, thematically based learning communities, and online and video-based programs and offers a case study of one such online program.
Descriptors: Supplementary Education, Distance Education, Unified Studies Curriculum, Learning Resources Centers