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Lynn McAlpine

Lynn McAlpine is a Professor of Education and former Director and member of the Centre for University Teaching and Learning at McGill University, Canada. Her teaching, faculty development and research activities focus largely on the thinking underlying teaching action - why we do what we do. This work includes understanding how knowledge of students and learning can influence
teaching decisions.


Publications
McAlpine, L., & Saroyan, A. (2004). Situating the course design workshop within our work as faculty developers. In A. Saroyan & C. Amundsen (Eds.) Rethinking teaching in higher education: From a course design workshop to a faculty development framework. Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing.

McAlpine, L., Saroyan, A., & Winer, L. (2004). So, what do we actually do? Two cases that exemplify our approach. In A. Saroyan & C. Amundsen (Eds.) Rethinking teaching in higher education: From a course design workshop to a faculty development framework. Sterling, VA: Stylus publishing.

Saroyan, A., Weston, C., McAlpine, L., & Cowan, S. (2004). Evaluation of teaching. In A. Saroyan & C. Amundsen (Eds.) Rethinking teaching in higher education: From a course design workshop to a faculty development framework. Sterling, VA: Stylus publishing.

Weston, C., & McAlpine, L. (2004). Evaluation of student learning. In A. Saroyan & C. Amundsen (Eds.) Rethinking teaching in higher education: From a course design workshop to a faculty development framework. Sterling, VA: Stylus publishing.

Saroyan, A., Amundsen, C., McAlpine, L., Weston, C., Winer, L., & Gandell, T. (2004). Tenets underlying our approach to faculty development. In A. Saroyan & C. Amundsen (Eds.) Rethinking teaching in higher education: From a course design workshop to a faculty development framework. Sterling, VA: Stylus publishing.

Saroyan, A., Amundsen, C., Weston, C., McAlpine, L., Winer, L., Cowan, S., & Gandell, T. Overview of course design workshop. (2004). Linking theory with practice. In A. Saroyan & C. Amundsen (Eds.) Rethinking teaching in higher education: From a course design workshop to a faculty development framework. Sterling, VA: Stylus publishing.

McAlpine, L., & Weston, C. (2002). Reflection: Issues related to improving professors’ teaching and students’ learning. In P. Goodyear & N. Hativa (Eds.) Teacher thinking, beliefs and knowledge in higher education. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer, 59-78.

Weston, C., & McAlpine, L. (2001). Making explicit the development toward the scholarship of teaching. In. C. Kreber (Ed.). New Directions for Teaching and Learning: The scholarship of teaching, #86. San Franscisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 89-97.

McAlpine, L., Bracewell, R., & Gandell, T. (2000). Professors’ experiences in using commercial web course management systems. In. B. Mann (Ed.). Perspectives in web course management. Toronto, ON: Canadian Scholar's Press, 241-257.

McAlpine, L., Maguire, S., Lee, M.D. (in press). Pedagogy Excellence Project: A professor-student team approach to authentic inquiry. Studies in Higher Education.

McAlpine, L., Weston, C., Berthiaume, D., Fairbank-Roch, G., & Owen, M (in press). Reflection on teaching: Types and goals of reflection. Educational Research and Evaluation.

McAlpine, L., Weston, C., Berthiaume, D., & Fairbank-Roch, G. (in press). How do professors explain their thinking when planning and teaching?. Higher Education.

McAlpine, L., Gandell, T., Winer, L., Gruzleski, J., Mydlarski, L., Nicell, J., & Harris, R. (under review). A collective approach towards enhancing undergraduate Engineering Education.

McAlpine, L., & Norton, J. (in process). Reframing our approach to doctoral programs: A learning perspective.

McAlpine, L., (2004). Designing learning rather then designing teaching: A model of instruction for higher education that emphasizes learner practice. Active Learning in Higher Education, 5(2), 119-134.

McAlpine, L., & Gandell, T. (2003). Teaching improvement grants: What they tell us about professors’ instructional choices for the use of technology in higher education. British Journal of Educational Technology, 34 (3), 283-296.

McAlpine, L., & Weston, C. (2000). Reflection: Issues related to improving professors’ teaching and students’ learning. Instructional Science, 28, 363-385.

Weston, C., Gandell, T., McAlpine, L., & Finkelstein, A. (1999). Designing instruction for the context of online learning. The Internet and Higher Education, 2 (1), 35-44.

McAlpine, L., Weston, C., Beauchamp, J., Beauchamp, C., & Wiseman, C. (1999). Building a model of reflection. Higher Education, 37 (2), 105-131.

McAlpine, L., Weston, C., Beauchamp, C., Wiseman, C., & Beauchamp, J. (1999). Monitoring student cues: Tracking students’ behaviour in order to improve instruction. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 29 (2), 113-349.