Review of Teaching improvement practices: Successful strategies for higher education

Abstract

This volume contains 15 papers on strategies for improving teaching in higher education with a focus on perceptions of current practices particularly in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and Canada. The papers are: "Teaching Improvement Practices: International Perspectives" (W. Alan Wright and M. Carol O'Neil); "Understanding Student Learning: Implications for Instructional Practice" (Christopher K. Knapper); "Increasing Faculty Understanding of Teaching" (Keith Trigwell); "Preparing Faculty as Tutors in Problem-Based Learning" (David Kaufman); "Introducing Faculty to Cooperative Learning" (Barbara J. Millis); "Improving Laboratory Teaching" (Elizabeth Hazel); "From Shaping Performances to Dynamic Interaction: The Quiet Revolution in Teaching Improvement Programs" (Richard G. Tiberius); "Faculty Development Workshops and Institutes" (James Eison and Ellen Stevens); "Using the