Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2115/47997

JaLCDOI : 10.14943/J.HighEdu.17.99

In 2007, Hokkaido University made a change in the system of faculty-development activities. Before the change, the old system consisted of : (a) a one-day course for teaching asisitants in April, (b) a one-day course for new teaching-staff members in June, and (c) a two-day workshop about education for teaching-staff members in November. In the new system the one-day course in (b) was replaced by a two-day workshop quite similar to the one in (c). The two-day workshop in (c) was introduced in 1998 to improve the education of Hokkaido University and it has been held once a year since. We have experienced the new system for two 2 years and met many young participants. The purpose of this report is to explain what was done in the two-day workshops in 2008. The first two-day workshop (in June) had 31 participants from all over Hokkaido University, and the second one (in November) had 31 participants from all over Hokkaido University and 7 participants from 7 other institutions. The main theme was to learn how to develop new courses. Furthermore, we choose an additional theme each year, and in that year's workshops it was to plan courses fascinating students. Each of the workshops had (1) three sessions about planning of courses, each of which consisted of mini lectures, small group discussions and a general discussion, and (2) two lectures, one about the purpose of faculty development and the other is one about the meaning of 'respecting the requirements for credits more strictly' in the first workshop (in June), and one about the various problems of harassment in the the second workshop (in November). The main contents of this report are the syllabi of the courses worked out in the workshops.