Talking with a Disgruntled Faculty Member

Academic Morphing: Teaching Assistant to Faculty Member

This paper discusses the process by which graduate teaching assistants (TAs), participating in a longitudinal study, used their graduate TA experience to successfully survive the transition from being a teaching assistant to becoming a faculty member. A theoretical framework is presented that describes how individual characteristics of the TAs worked together with disciplinary, institutional, a...

challenges of measuring a faculty member activity in medical schools

Challenges of Measuring a Faculty Member Activity in Medical Schools

BACKGROUND One of the features of Mission Based Management is measuring the activities of faculty members and departments and their contributions to the school's mission. As it is important to assess the school's readiness for such a system, in this study we assessed the view points of Tehran Medical School's department chairs about faculty members' activities. METHODS We used focus group tec...

Nursing Students’ Perception of Ethical and Professional Characteristics of an Ideal Faculty Member: A Qualitative Study

Introduction: One of the factors affecting in promoting educational quality is the properties of the faculty members. As consumers, students are stakeholders of educational products of the faculty. Since receiving feedback from customers is one of the substantial steps for promoting service quality, it is necessary to perform a deep examination of the issue to explicate new dimensions of an ide...

EgoChat Agent: A Talking Virtualized Member for Supporting Community Knowledge Creation

In this paper, we propose a method for supporting knowledge creation in a community by talking with virtualized-egos. We propose two ideas for the community knowledge creation. The first idea is talking with virtualized community member called ”virtualized-ego”; a virtualized-ego is a software agent that mimics a community member. Virtualized-egos replay past speeches of community members and g...