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

Janet Donald (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787908320 | ISBN-13: 978-0787908324 | Publication Date: February 26, 1997 | Edition: 1st

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This excellent manual explains not only how but why educators should improve the learning environment at the higher education level. If the academic community treats Donald's recommendations seriously, the educational outcomes of students as well as the learning environment will surely improve." (Choice)

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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.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 269 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (February 26, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787908320
• ISBN-13: 978-0787908324
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,299,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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