A number of Bose State employees who work in faculty development recently published an article examining the impact of an intensive professional development program developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Center for Teaching and Learning’s Brittnee Earl, Teresa Focarile and Sarah Lausch, the Program Evaluation and Research Lab’s Meagan Haynes, Susan Shadle in the Office of the Provost Office, and Lisa Berry from the eCampus Center authored “They came, they engaged, they changed: Evidence of impact of intensive pandemic professional development” which appears in To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development.
The authors found a positive correlation between educational development initiatives and improvements in faculty’s use of evidence-based instructional practices. The research highlights that faculty who participated in more intensive programs showed greater improvement.