Improving the Environment for Learning: Academic Leaders Talk About What Works (Jossey Bass Higher & Adult Education Series) - Hardcover

Donald, Janet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787908320 ISBN 13: 9780787908324

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Synopsis

Identifies optimal practices or benchmarks for creating a quality learning environment and outlines steps faculty and administrators can take to strengthen student learning on their own campuses. Integrates the rich literature of teaching and learning with the findings from in–depth interviews with faculty and administrators at four of America′s premier research institutions, and offers practical, real–life solutions for meeting student learning challenges.

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About the Author

JANET G. DONALD is professor of education and former director of the Centre for University Teaching and Learning at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. She lives in Westmount, Canada.

From the Back Cover

Identifies best practices benchmarks and offers the tools needed to enrich the learning environment. Improving the Environment for Learning identifies optimal practices or ?benchmarks? within higher education and outlines steps faculty and administrators can take to strengthen student learning on their own campuses. The author integrates the rich literature of teaching and learning with findings from her in–depth interviews with faculty and administrators at four of America′s premier research institutions. The author focuses on key factors influencing learning, identifies policies and practices central to effectiveness, and offers practical, real–life solutions for meeting student learning challenges.

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Using a popular and proven business strategy, Janet Donald identifies optimal practices or ?benchmarks? for creating a quality learning environment and outlines steps faculty and administrators can take to strengthen student learning. Donald integrates the rich literature of teaching and learning with the findings from her in–depth interviews with faculty and administrators at four of America′s premier research institutions, and offers practical, real–life solutions for meeting student learning challenges..Academic Leaders who have been charged with ensuring accountability and promoting improvement in the higher education process will find diverse and multi level strategies that can be selected and adapted for institutions with different histories and missions. Using the voices of faculty, administrators, and members of higher education centers, Donald shows how to define an educational mission and set of priorities. She discusses how learning goals vary across the disciplines and what this means in terms of student outcomes. She examines the practices that support the improvement of teaching and she discusses classroom assessment techniques that measure learning and teaching. Donald also covers student selection and access especially questions of quality and diversity and she provides strategies that recognize teaching in tenure and reward systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787908320
• ISBN 13: 9780787908324
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270