Eager Mondays » Case studies http://www.eagermondays.com unconventional professional development Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:02:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Case Study: Faculty development at Japanese universities http://www.eagermondays.com/2009/07/case-study-faculty-development-at-japanese-universities/ http://www.eagermondays.com/2009/07/case-study-faculty-development-at-japanese-universities/#comments Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:24:11 +0000 admin http://www.eagermondays.com/?p=58 Japanese universities are increasingly seeking to draw students from outside the country’s borders.  As a result, their faculty need assistance in learning to improve their English language speaking and–more importantly–moving away from passive, lecture-based courses to the interactive classrooms students from elsewhere have come to expect.  Via the University of California, Davis, Teaching Resources Center, Eager Mondays partners Mikaela Huntzinger, Andy Jones, and Leslie Madsen-Brooks have provided extensive assistance to both large and small groups of faculty.

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NAISTThe Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Nara, Japan
photo by Hiroaki Sakuma, and used under a Creative Commons license

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