Faculty Development

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Faculty Development

Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning

May 1, 2012

This report from the Alliance for Excellent Education outlines the primary components of a learner-centered environment, the role of the teacher in a learner-centered environment, and the imp…

Blended Learning Implementation Guide

February 5, 2013

Digital Learning Now! (DLN) released "The Blended Learning Implementation Guide," the fifth DLN Smart Series paper, for leaders who are ready seize the opp…

Successful Mentoring Relationships for Career Development

April 16, 2013

Participation in mentoring activities can be a key success factor in your career development. But how do you start? How do you find the right mentor or set of mentors for your situation? What sho…

Going Exponential – Growing the Charter Sector’s Best

January 1, 2011

The supply of seats in the nation’s best charter schools is not growing rapidly enough to serve the millions of low-income children who need better schools.  Based on lessons from the fastes…

Seizing the Opportunity at the Top: How the U.S. Can Reach Every Student with an Effective Teacher

January 1, 2011

American children deserve the one ingredient we know creates stellar learning results: excellent teachers, consistently. This brief explains why every child needs excellent teachers year after …

3x for all: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best

January 1, 2009

Teacher effectiveness has the largest impact of school effects on student learning, and research indicates that top-quintile teachers produce learning gains three times (3X) that of bottom-quin…

Classroom and Instructional Technology

December 18, 2012

This CDS Spotlight focuses on survey results related to classroom technology . Creating effective learning environments in higher education classrooms with technology poses an ongoing challe…

Fulbright Scholar Program Also Serves Learning Technologists

March 15, 2013

by Meg Stewart “The world is changing. Our disciplines are changing. Our students are changing. But is higher education keeping pace?...For education to do better we cannot just keep do…

Building Blocks for College Completion: Blended Learning

December 11, 2012

Ten projects funded by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) in the initiative’s first round of investment in 2011, known as Wave I, sought to scale the adoption of blended learning model…

Bridges and Barriers to Teaching Online College Courses: A Study of Experienced Online Faculty in Thirty-Six Colleges

July 1, 2007

This paper reports on initial findings from a research study of factors that enable and constrain faculty participation in online teaching and learning environments. It is noted that demand for…