Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; About the Contributors; ISSUES OF INSTRUCTION; 1. Improving Teaching by Design: Preferred Policies, Programs and Practices; 2. A Cross-Cultural Look at Perceptions of Good Teaching: Asia and the West; 3. University Teachers and Instruction: Important Themes for a Global Discussion; PERSPECTIVES ON STUDENT LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT; 4. Improving Teaching Through Research on Student Learning; 5. ""It's Just You and the Books"": Learning Conditions and Study Strategies of Distance Learners at the University of the South Pacific
6. Portfolios as an Alternative Assessment Practice in Higher Education7. Encouraging the Use of Collaborative Learning in Higher Education; 8. How Micronesian Students Learn Skills for Personal Adjustment: Issues of Authority, Self-Disclosure, and Cultural Relevance; TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY TEACHERS; 9. The Preparation of University Teachers: A Cross-National Perspective; 10. Academic Staff Development in Southern Africa: The Botswana Model; 11. A University Teaching Practicum: Unpacking the Model; IMAGES OF POLICY, STRUCTURE, AND ORGANIZATION
12. Benchmarking Teaching Performance in Universities: Issues of Control, Policy, Theory, and ""Best Practice13. Work-Based Experience and Higher Professional Learning in British Universities; 14. Quality versus Quantity Objectives: Effects of the Danish University 1990 Bachelor Degree Ordinance on Students' Educational Experience; 15. From Experiment to Enterprise: Distance Teaching at the University of the West Indies; 16. Integrating Writing Skills into the Curriculum of the Disciplines: A Social Constructionist Approach; 17. Student Activism and University Teaching in South Korea
18. Accountability Without Tenure: The Impact of Academic Contests on University Teaching at the University of Buenos AiresSelected Bibliography; Index