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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience. Thanks to that requirement, the Cal State system has built a library that has grown to more than 200 teaching portfolios.

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Why U. of Michigan’s President Says Universities Should Work to Transform Teaching

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The fact that you can carry around, in your pocket, a device that gives you access to all the information in the whole world, that must change what and how we teach. The fact that we've got networked communications that allows us to interact with people that are sitting next to us, but also people that are sitting half way around the world.

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