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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. 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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We're organizations that are always asking questions and trying to make discoveries. As a research university, a lot of that activity goes on within the disciplines that our faculty study, but we also now take the same approach with teaching. Why do you need to reinvent academics in the first place? Sometimes people get attacked.

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