Motivating and Rewarding University Teachers to Improve Student Learning

This volume provides a timely discussion on the issues pondering in the minds of many newly recruited faculty and administrators-to uncover the real culture and offer suggestions on how to create a culture to nurture student learning; and to explore the issue of what is research-in-teaching. With improving student learning as the ultimate goal, the author suggests many concrete ways to change the teaching practice and, more importantly, the culture of a university.