Faculty/Professional Development

Productive Assessment l Professional Development l Planning: Visions, Strategies l Boundary Crossing
LTAs - Low Threshold Applications l Individual Members Resources

Faculty face a bewildering number of attractive options for improving their courses, their own teaching, and their students' learning. Yet time is at a premium - it's hard for faculty to find the time and incentive to master new approaches and difficult for support units (e.g., teaching centers, library, distance learning, support specialists in departments) to coordinate their own work and reach faculty members. The resources listed in the table below are available from the TLT Group, some of them free. The TLT Group also provides consulting services to help institutions evaluate current services and plan more rapidly useful and cost-effective strategies.

Ideas for Teaching and Learning with Technology

Strategies for Faculty Support and Professional Development

The "Seven Principles of Good Practice: Technology as Lever." A growing library of teaching ideas, assessment tools, workshop materials, and more. One way to think about the effectiveness of instruction is through Chickering and Gamson's seven principles of good practice, principles the TLT Group has used in both faculty development and evaluation/assessment. This page links to explanations of the principles, hundreds of ideas for using technology to implement them, workshop materials, assessment tools, and more.
Low-Threshold Applications/Activities (LTA's): a fresh approach to help faculty members directly and to help with faculty development, professional development, and course improvement.
Collections & Repositories of Instructional Resources. Includes links to a wide range of collections of free resources such as MERLOT. We're working with MERLOT; if your institution wants to work with both TLTG and MERLOT, you can get a discount on both subscriptions.
Best Practices in Information Literacy Programs for Undergraduates. Faculty and librarians need to work together to gradually development student research skills. These resources and workshops have been developed with ACRL.
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - Assessment Resources for Faculty. Note: for institutional strategies for expanding the scholarship of teaching, click here.

Brief Hybrid Workshops: use 5-20 minute workshops and online tutorials to make faculty development more accessible (e.g., as short agenda item in departmental meeting) and more 'viral'
TLT Case Studies - brief description of common problems that occur when faculty use technology to improve and change teaching and learning. For seminar discussions among faculty and grad students. (NEW!)
Grants competitions for faculty - Ideas and considerations. Considerations for planning, awarding grants for course improvement.(NEW!)
Student Technology Assistant Programs. Proven approaches for using well-trained undergrads to provide a variety of kinds of support for teaching and learning with technology, including skilled support for faculty.(NEW!)
Distance Education. This Resource Page includes a variety of resources of use to leaders and faculty in programs of distance and distributed learning. It's of some benefit for improving blended and hybrid courses, too.
Using evaluation to improve your faculty development/support services. Click here for public version of this page (2003). Click here for the larger, up-to-date version (subscriber-only) of this page --- to find out if your institution is a subscriber and to get the institutional username and password, click here.
Compassionate pioneering: when someone takes a step forward and then takes a moment to extend a hand to help someone else along. How can your institution support this activity?
Personalizing Pedagogy There are many kinds of good teaching and good teachers -- just as there are many kinds of learners and learning. Information technology offers new options for identifying, supporting, and matching them more effectively.
TLT Group Professional and Faculty Development Model - A Synthesis of Methods & Selective Set of Resources.
Using the kinds of resources linked above, The TLT Group can work with your staff and a cohort of faculty from your institution, system, or association. We offer online, face-to-face, and hybrid events and web resources over a period of months or years. We help your faculty members to gradually improve their own courses, use assessment data to guide those improvements, and help their colleagues move in similar directions.

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