Teaching Workshops fail to spur Learner Centered Teaching

Teaching Workshops Fail to Spur Learner-centered Teaching

Professional development workshops for college teachers, designed to encourage the use of active, "learner-centered" teaching methods, may be less effective than the participants believe, according to research reported in the July issue of BioScience. Diane Ebert-May of Michigan State University and her colleagues studied the teaching of participants in two such established programs for faculty teaching introductory biology courses.  Read More


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