Faculty Helping Themselves to Improve Their Instructional Abilities

The question of how to go about self-improvement is a continuing one, and one that is aggravated by scarce resources. How, in the absence of time, for example, do groups of faculty go about developing their competencies and expanding their awareness of professional issues? A Study group - as the one described here - is an approach that can work well for a variety of reasons, reasons which can be understood in terms of research on small groups and adult learners