Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2021

From decades of scholarship on [anonymous] teaching evaluations, we know that this kind of app without due process is going to be aimed more at faculty of color and faculty who teach courses that are controversial, i.e. Black Lives Matter,” he said.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Hardy is an adjunct instructor who teaches at two institutions in the greater Boston area, which means she’s had to follow two sets of instructions for dealing with the coronavirus, adhere to two timelines for preparing for distance teaching and hastily learn two separate technology systems for delivering lectures virtually. “As

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

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. It’s one of the most effective approaches for changing teacher practices,” Gorman says. “In

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2017

They update the show “fortnightly,” and past episodes have covered why professors should ditch PowerPoint, how a group of high school students used a John Madden video game to teach math. It's really teaching and learning, and technology comes up when it's relevant,” explains O’Neill in an e-mail interview.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

But another big takeaway from this experience has been that learning innovation isn’t about the technology. Audience question] Has there been any conversation in higher ed about technology integration being part of faculty evaluation? All faculty can discount those evaluations from any review process.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Memories of that disheartening quarter still make my stomach turn, but I have recovered and learned to use my course evaluations as a tool for growth.

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