Develop Technology Skills of Professors
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"Teacher Preparation StaR
Chart"
A tool to encourage colleges to think more about developing the technology skills of their professors. As
a
self-assessment chart, the tool examines the various facets of teacher-preparation programs--from
campus-wide strategic planning and faculty development to coursework integrating technology to enhance
learning--that could result in the successful use of technology in classrooms. The chart then breaks down
each facet by four levels of capability--"early tech," "developing tech,"
"advanced
tech," and "target tech" programs. For example, a "target tech" program for
faculty
development would feature formal and informal training and mentoring for college faculty members. Such a
program would make use of technology in education, and offer "incentives for application in teaching
and in research."
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a new distance-education company has approached a number of elite liberal-arts colleges and Ivy League universities to propose an arrangement in which the company would put selected courses online and pay the institutions $250,000 per course. At least three institutions -- Amherst and Williams Colleges and Brown University -- are seriously considering the offer, and some faculty members worry that the arrangements could significantly change the nature of faculty-student interaction at the institutions.
North Central Association
North Central Association, Commission on Schools
Other Regional Accrediting Bodies
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Higher Education
New England Association of Schools and Colleges
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Education Sites
Council
for Higher Education Accreditation
United States Department of Education
American Association for Higher Education
Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education
Midwestern Higher Education Commission