Faculty Roles and Changing Expectations in the New Age - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1522586059 ISBN 13: 9781522586050

Publisher: IGI Global, 2019

Synopsis

This title is an IGI Global Core Reference for 2019 as it highlights the profound shift from traditional teacher-centered methods to learner-centered methods. This publication provides the latest, trending research on how to equip teachers for this new educational focus by providing international perspectives from educators in the U.S., Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and more.

Faculty Roles and Changing Expectations in the New Age provides a theoretical understanding of the link between ongoing changes in institutions and changes in faculty roles and provides course designs and pedagogical approaches that place faculty in the role of leaders and coaches for learning. While highlighting topics such as online andragogy, language learning, and digital transformation, this publication explores real-life examples and experiences of those involved in optimizing the practices of teaching and learning in the digital age. It is ideally designed for educators, instructors, administrators, faculty, researchers, practitioners, professors, and trainers.

About this title

About the Author

Yukiko Inoue-Smith , PhD, a professor and chair in the division of foundations and educational research at the University of Guam, teaches educational psychology and research. Her teaching and scholarship on education technology have equipped her to play an important role at the University. Her current research focuses on interdisciplinary studies of student learning and development, improving university teaching with technology, and social contexts of learning within higher education. Her recent books (editor/chapter author) include: Online Education for Lifelong Learning; and Faculty Roles and New Expectation in the New Age. And her book, A Jungle Named Academia: Approaches to Self-Development and Growth, is a product of her many years of experiences and observations in academia. She is equally committed to poetry as the second area in which she has invested her passion for writing. Her recent poetry books include: The Inescapable Seasons of Life; and The Winter Woods: My Journey into Tanka.

Edition details

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1522586059
• ISBN 13: 9781522586050
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 303
• Editor: Inoue-Smith Yukiko