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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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It's making the scholarly work of the academy, more accessible and available, not just to our students, but to the general public so the discussions and the debates we have are based on more thorough thought and knowledge. More fact based debates. I'll tell you one thing that I mean by that.

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