The Online Faculty Development and Assessment System

This article evaluates the role of the Online Faculty Development and Assessment System (OFDAS), created at universities in the Canary Islands, Spain, in staff development. The evaluation indicates that the system helped staff in learning to teach curriculum and teaching capacities. The tasks, onlin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Research in learning technology 2007-12, Vol.15 (3)
Hauptverfasser: Villar, Luis M., Alegre, Olga M.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article evaluates the role of the Online Faculty Development and Assessment System (OFDAS), created at universities in the Canary Islands, Spain, in staff development. The evaluation indicates that the system helped staff in learning to teach curriculum and teaching capacities. The tasks, online resources and opportunities for discussions provided within the learning environment created for the system helped shape their attitudes towards learning curriculum and teaching capacities and enabled them to share their concerns about students’ classroom learning environment assessment.DOI: 10.1080/09687760701673618
ISSN:2156-7069
2156-7077
DOI:10.3402/rlt.v15i3.10932