Faculty Development

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Faculty Development

Elevate Your Game: Develop Your Five-Year Personal Professional Development Plan

March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

The adage failure to plan is planning to fail applies to our careers. No matter what your career level or financial and time constraints might be, there are many opportunities available for you to …

Faculty Reporting Systems: Expectations vs. Realities

March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Faculty activity reporting systems are used to collect data regarding academic endeavors for promotion, merit, and reporting purposes. Recent attention on accountability, accreditation, and analyti…

Connecting IT with Academics: It's Not Just about the Technology

March 19, 2013 | A session at the Midwest Regional Conference

Have you ever experienced a disconnect between technology and academics at your institution? In this session, we will start with an interactive exercise that will allow participants to experience d…

Teaching Fishing; or, Empowering Users with Technology

February 13, 2013 | A session at the West/Southwest Regional Conference

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime." This session will discuss the issues of "teaching fishing" (in relation …

The Five Dimensions of Attaining Scale: Implications for Innovation in Higher Education

October 3, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012

In education, unlike other sectors of society, the scaling up of successful innovations from a few initial settings to widespread use across a range of contexts is very difficult. Contextual fact…

Piloting Innovation through Faculty Development Programs

October 3, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012

The University of Minnesota's Faculty Fellowship Program is an 18-month faculty development program designed to support transformational uses of technology to enhance learning while building…

Hot Teams: Rapid Investigations of Emerging Technologies

October 2, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012

When a new technology emerges, we can only speculate about how it could be applied to teaching and learning. At Penn State, we have created the Hot Team process, which is a systematic exploration…

Creating a Culture of Innovation

October 2, 2012 | A session at the ELI Online Fall Focus Session 2012

Getting the right people at the right time with the right tools and training is critical to creating a culture of innovation. At the InnovationSpace at Virginia Tech, we've combi…

Creating and Managing Online Faculty Training in Adobe Captivate and Blackboard

November 7, 2012 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference

In planning online training for faculty development, ITDD in GUMC did a pilot to determine if Adobe Captivate and Blackboard could be used for creating different types of online training. This pr…

Demystifying Social Media for Media-Curious Faculty

March 14, 2012 | A session at the NERCOMP Annual Conference 2012

This session will explore the challenges of training faculty in the nuances of social media. We'll discuss the experience of developing and offering fully online social media training seminars…