Conference Session

Faculty and Course Evolution: Teaching With Technology, Online Delivery, and Addressing Emerging Student & Industry Needs

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sandra Bird, University of Georgia; Nadia N. Kellam, University of Georgia

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

practices and individual course design5 while departmental committees composed ofgroups of faculty are responsible for curricular development. Froyd5 describes the pervasiveclassroom practice in engineering departments as lecture-based and summarily characterizes thepractice as “teaching as you have been taught.” In this system, individual faculty members areprimarily responsible for changes in practice and to implement change they must move past theclassroom culture in which they developed and have continued to practice for many years.The reward structure in research universities does not support extensive faculty focus onteaching. Promotions and tenure still rest primarily on achievements by faculty in producingscholarly publications and