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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 19, 2015
Summary Sentence:
On April 17, Georgia Tech's Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning honored 18 faculty members at the 2015 Faculty and Staff Awards Luncheon.
Full Summary:
How Tech cultivates, recognizes, and rewards great teaching to promote better learning.
Teaching to the Tech
Raghu Pucha
Chrissy SpencerA column in The New York Times this past February, titled “How to Hold Colleges Accountable,” had several suggestions for making higher education more effective, but at the top of the list was “quality of teaching.”
Noting that most professors come from Ph.D. programs where there’s much more emphasis on research than pedagogy, the co-authors lamented the lack of training, evaluation, and assessment that college professors receive when it comes to teaching.
Well, Georgia Tech is on it — and actually has been for some time.
