Open AccessChapter 10: Defeating the Developer's Dilemma
Author(s) -
DiPietro Michele,
Ambrose Susan A.,
Bridges Michael,
Fay Anne,
Lovett Marsha C.,
Norman Marie Kamala
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2009.tb00555.x
Subject(s) - dilemma , excellence , face (sociological concept) , computer science , center of excellence , adjunct , engineering ethics , center (category theory) , engineering , sociology , political science , philosophy , epistemology , social science , linguistics , chemistry , database , law , crystallography
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.