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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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These days, though, even the most well-known colleges feel pressure to keep up with the changing times and technologies when it comes to their classroom practices. It’s not enough to install a few “smart classrooms”—today’s new approaches go deeper, often requiring professors to change the way they teach.

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