How Tech cultivates, recognizes, and rewards great teaching to promote better learning.
Apr 19, 2015 - Atlanta, GA
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A column in The New York Times this past February, titled “How to Hold Colleges Accountable,” had several suggestions for making higher education more effective, but at the top of the list was “quality of teaching.”
Noting that most professors come from Ph.D. programs where there’s much more emphasis on research than pedagogy, the co-authors lamented the lack of training, evaluation, and assessment that college professors receive when it comes to teaching.
Well, Georgia Tech is on it — and actually has been for some time.