Defeating the Developer\u27s Dilemma: An Online Tool for Individual Consultations

This chapter introduces an online consultation tool that helps resolve the tension that developers often experience in consultations between offering quick fixes and providing in-depth but time-consuming conceptual understanding. The tool that the Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence has developed provides instructors with concrete teaching strategies to address common teaching problems, while also educating them about the pedagogical principles informing those strategies. The tool can be used to enhance traditional face-to-face consultations or, by itself, to reach a wider faculty audience, including adjunct and off site faculty

Exploring 7 Principles of Learning and Their Impact on Teaching

This session will describe seven principles of learning, distilled from research in cognitive, developmental, and social psychology; education; and diversity studies. These seven principles align with the perspective that learning is developmental and holistic. In addition, because the principles are relevant across disciplines, student experience levels, and cultural contexts, we will explore how they apply to a variety of teaching situations