The instruction myth : why higher education is hard to change, and how to change it /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tagg, John (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2019]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Where are we and how did we get here?
  • The chronic crisis
  • How did it get this way?
  • Why is change so hard?
  • The status quo bias
  • How the status quo bias defends itself in organizations
  • The design of colleges and the myths of quality
  • Framing the faculty role : graduate school, departments, and the price of change
  • The myth of unity and the paradox of effort
  • Faculty expertise and the myth of teacher professionalism
  • Trial run : changing the college, the case of the degree qualifications profile
  • Learning to change, changing to learn
  • Seeds of change
  • How do people learn to change?
  • Diffusing innovation by making peer groups
  • Promoting innovation through scholarly teaching
  • Information flow and feedback : the teaching inventory and portfolio
  • Information flow and feedback : the outcomes transcript and portfolio
  • Changing the faculty endowment
  • Creating a market for education
  • Levers for change : a new accountability.