What is Teaching Practice

The promise of technology to meet student learning demands, increase employer demand for digital fluency, and provide faculty with a platform for student-centered teaching has fallen short. Colleges must examine new ways to train faculty to use technology in tandem with pedagogy. This chapter illustrates a three-tiered model to close this gap in digital fluency among college faculty, in order to enable a more engaging and student-centered experience for faculty-learners and the students they teach. The three-tiered model, adapted from a blended learning pilot, incorporates critical constructs in technological pedagogical content knowledge integration, the technology acceptance model, and phased faculty development, while offering user-friendly access to digital tools which are appropriate for each tier of the model.