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Download full textRuth, Stephen – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2018
For over a decade the annual Babson reports indicated that only about 30% of full-time professors approve of distance learning, and several other more recent reports echo that finding. Since about one third of all college students in the United States are currently taking at least one course at distance, this means that the pool of teaching talent…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Resistance (Psychology), Electronic Learning
Direct linkFrances, Raelene – Arts and Humanities in Higher Education: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, 2016
This article supports Bérubé's conclusion regarding the intellectual health of humanities scholarship. However, it argues that the case of "contingent faculty"--or academics with short-term or casual contracts--is in many respects different in Australia to the situation he outlines for the US. Whilst a variety of funding pressures have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Humanities, Scholarship
Bryson, Colin – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2013
A major proportion of teaching in UK universities is undertaken by a diverse and large group of sessional staff, in common with many HE systems around the world. This articles reviews efforts over the last decade to support and develop such staff and to improve their situation. Improvement in this area is very slow. The article concludes by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty
