How will the workshops web-based cmi materials enhance faculty pedagogical effectiveness?
The Workshop’s Web-based computer-mediated instructional (CMI) materials will advance this objective by providing instructors the opportunity to employ a broader range of instructional materials and teaching practices than is possible within the canonically organized college classroom. Recall that within these canonical settings, the major form of instructional materials currently employed is the one-size-fits-all textbook and the teaching practices instructors most frequently employ revolve around the lock-step syllabus and the whole-class lecture-presentation. The complaint most frequently lodged against this mode of instruction is that it promotes passive learning, a bits-and-pieces approach to understanding disciplinary knowledge, and no real understanding of the underlying structure of the discipline being taught. The new materials and practices of The Workshop will enable instructors to more closely monitor the ongoing learning progress of their students, to provide students more
