Özet:
The purpose of this paper is to share the findings of a highly generalizable
investigative feasibility project, whose goal is to enhance the teaching ability of
current higher education faculty members. The mission of the project was to
introduce a new doctoral degree on Global Education and Leadership (GEL)
geared toward a ubiquitous, broad approach to assist faculty members in their
pursuit of improved teaching and learning. The methods used were to perform an
online search identifying 18 different institutions, whose mission focused on both
student-centered learning, as well as pursued an active scholarship of teaching and
learning agenda; contact 52 key personnel for a visit to share our program; travel
to each of eight countries to share the vision of the program in five weeks; and
finally to collate results and examine trends and identify host institutions,
accreditation steps and start dates. The major result of this experience was the
unanimous agreement on the universal unsystematic process of providing tertiary
faculty members with the essential andragogical methods to efficiently and
effectively become exemplar teachers. Due to the overwhelming uniformity in
affirmative response to the program, the key conclusion is to move forward with
the doctoral program aggressively.
