The CDIO ++ Approach to University Faculty Advance Training for Research and Teaching Activities

Designing and validating the quality management model of teaching activities for university faculty members

The main purpose of this article was to design and validate a model of quality management of teaching activities for university faculty members. This research was done in the framework of qualitative and quantitative approach. In the qualitative phase, 12 university education experts were selected purposefully and with a theoretical sampling strategy and were interviewed in a semi-structured ma...

Teaching Teamwork: Factors That Influence Research University Engineering Faculty to Implement Team Activities in Their Classes

1 Norene M. Moskalski, Temple University, College of Education, Philadelphia, PA 19122 USA [email protected] Abstract  This qualitative grounded theory and quantitative multiple logistic regression mixed study examined why research university engineering faculty do— or do not—change their teaching methods. Results from the qualitative component, tested in a larger population and anal...

Approaching TEL in university teaching: the faculty training need

The introduction of ICT in university teaching is a long process and is strongly conditioned by many variables, first of all the level of knowledge the faculty members possess about the educational uses of ICT and the related instructional design approaches. This is the key issue on the basis of which the two specific training projects referred in this paper have been launched. After describing...

Training Faculty for Cultural Teaching

the evaluation and comparison of two esp textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...