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Cara Meixner – To Improve the Academy, 2024
Holistic educational development supports multiple, intersected facets of the faculty career to include teaching and learning, research and scholarship, leadership, career planning, wellness, and more. This constructivist qualitative study explores the landscape of 12 holistic educational development centers, with focus on how their leaders engage…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Holistic Approach, Administrator Attitudes, Administrators
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Wiets Botes; Anita Philip – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2025
This study investigated whether the Key Concepts in Science Project influenced the pedagogical development of Natural Science teachers. Grounded in social constructivism, emphasising collaborative learning and hands-on interaction, the study employed qualitative methods to collect empirical data. Through photographic evidence, field notes, and…
Descriptors: Natural Sciences, Science Teachers, Scientific Concepts, Cooperative Learning
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Bolitzer, Liza Ann – Journal of Faculty Development, 2019
A key way that colleges and universities seek to improve student learning is by providing instructional development to faculty. Yet today, the majority of college faculty are non-tenure track, adjunct faculty who have limited access to instructional support, and have traditionally not participated in such teaching improvement efforts when offered.…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Adjunct Faculty, Instructional Development, College Faculty
Baylor, Amy – 2001
In this exploratory study, 135 pre-service teachers developed an instructional plan for a case study within the MIMIC (Multiple Intelligent Mentors Instructing Collaboratively) computer-based environment. Three-dimensional, animated pedagogical computer agents, representing constructivist and instructivist approaches to instructional planning,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Cooperative Programs, Faculty Development
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Biggs, John – Higher Education, 1996
An approach to college-level instructional design that incorporates the principles of constructivism, termed "constructive alignment," is described. The process is then illustrated with reference to a professional development unit in educational psychology for teachers, but the model is viewed as generalizable to most units or programs in higher…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Educational Philosophy
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Crawford, Margaret, Ed.; Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2000
This document presents the proceedings of the 23rd annual National Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) (Denver, Colorado, 2000). For the first time, the Proceedings are published in two volumes. The first volume contains papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software Development