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OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I I just could make a bigger difference in education,” he says. Education research wasn’t new to Wieman, who these days is an emeritus professor of physics and of education at Stanford University. Why that topic?

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JUNE 10, 2021

Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received. And research shows that professors who collect early-term feedback, and who use it to make changes to their courses with the help of a consultant, can raise their end-of-semester teaching evaluations.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Though the main focus is teaching (as the name makes clear), she also devotes some episodes to tips on improving personal productivity (there’s plenty of talk about a technique she likes called GTD, or Getting Things Done).

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MARCH 27, 2020

What we’re already seeing, in terms of waivers of federal requirements for seat-time for international students and likewise with various forms of online study. Department of Education … is now allowing virtual accreditation visits to count. All faculty can discount those evaluations from any review process.

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