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

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At the height of the buzz around MOOCs and flipped classrooms three years ago, Bridget Ford worried that administrators might try to replace her introductory history course with a batch of videos. For her, that meant reducing the amount of lecture time and spending part of class sessions on team-based projects. “It

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

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I was always a person that learned great sitting in a lecture. They barely go to lecture at all, and they absorb tremendous amounts of material from reading a book or from a media presentation. People's image of a research university is really very much a place where students go to classes and sit in lectures and go to football games.

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