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Download full textKaye, David – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2014
This paper discusses the critical situations I have been asked to "improve" by providing professional development for teams of adult numeracy and functional mathematics teachers in the post-16 sector in London. These situations have not been identified through any research process, but arise from internal management reviews of course…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Numeracy
Direct linkKhan, Shahinshah Babar; Chishti, Saeed-ul-Hasan – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2012
Quality education may be termed as the primary way that leads to development of nations and can play an exclusive role in maintaining the standards of education. It is understood that using conventional teaching methods, desired products cannot be achieved; making the need for modern approaches to be evolved for sound qualitative work. The target…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Faculty, Open Universities, Educational Quality
Macdonald, Janet; Black, Aileen – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2010
There has been much discussion in this journal of the development of the scholarship of teaching and learning. Indeed the effective enhancement of teaching and learning is more likely to take place when generic lessons are contextualized within the language of the discipline, and adapted to the needs of the students. We describe here a study of…
Descriptors: Professional Development, College Faculty, College Instruction, Reflection
Conole, Grainne – Open Learning, 2010
When asked what they would find most helpful to enable them to use technologies more in their teaching, most teachers say "give me examples, in my subject area" and "point me to relevant people I can discuss these issues with". Web 2.0 technologies--with their emphasis on sharing, networking and user production--seem to offer a…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Educational Resources, Teaching Methods, Educational Needs
Macdonald, Janet; Hills, Laura – Distance Education, 2005
The provision of a professional development programme for distance tutors can be problematic because of the need for flexibility to cater for a variety of working practices, or to overcome the hurdles imposed by geographical remoteness. At the UK Open University, online networks are widely in use for teaching and learning, and we are actively…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Professional Development, Open Universities, Distance Education
Eib, B. J.; Miller, Pam – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2006
When faculty development is viewed as an ongoing need and when we approach faculty development as a long-term, continuous effort, community building becomes a part of the process. Carefully designed faculty development approaches can facilitate and create a culture that supports a thoughtful focus on teaching, while at the same time, nurture a…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Open Universities, Collegiality, Foreign Countries
