Adrianna Kezar in Inside Higher Ed: Toward better assessments in online courses

In a Q&A about strategies for better assessment of online courses in Inside Higher Ed, Pullias co-director Adrianna Kezar was quoted about faculty development for adjunct instructors:

As Adrianna Kezar has written, faculty development can go a long way to eliminating the worst aspects of the growing adjunct situation, but it cannot resolve the long-term structural issues, and this needs to be important to higher education administrators truly concerned about online educational quality. In addition to the human costs involved when working in a state of precarity, there are costs to educational quality as well.

Read the full article at Inside Higher Ed. Kezar is the lead researcher for The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success, which provides tools and resources to help create new faculty models and better support faculty off the tenure track to enhance higher education institutions.