Interested in improving the quality of teaching in Higher Education Institutions (IES), we integrate research on good teachers, carried out by both the author and other researchers. These studies are distinguished by having used different methodologies, being carried out at different times and in different places; however, there are important…

While online courses are becoming a mainstay of college course offerings administrators, staff, instructors and students have different perceptions about how online courses should work. While faculty members are expert in their discipline and institutions provide support for acquiring content expertise, how instructors develop skills in online…

To address the special challenges of teaching computer science, adequate development of teachers' competencies during their education is extremely important. In particular, pedagogical content knowledge and teachers' beliefs and motivational orientations play an important role in effective teaching. This research field has been sparsely…

This phenomenological study describes seven stages of learning to teach at the university level. Through the use of narratives, twelve Canadian university professors reveal their beliefs and attitudes about teaching and learning as they struggle to become better teachers within various academic settings. The purpose of the study was to develop a…

Examined beliefs and concepts about "good teaching." Fifty-five graduate student teachers completed an inventory of learning approaches, wrote essays on "good teaching," and were interviewed. A second cohort of 55 students completed a modified questionnaire that encouraged student reflection on concepts of good teaching. Individual's concepts…

Research on teacher education has been shifting from the emphasis on changing teachers' behaviors to investigating how teachers' mental thinking influences their teaching behaviors. Teachers' beliefs and planning are two important components among teacher thinking research. The purposes of this study are to uncover preservice secondary science…