October 13, 2008

Harvard's Derek Bok: Professors, Study Thine Own Teaching

By Peter Schmidt

Durham, N.C.

College professors could become much more effective teachers if they would approach the question of what their students are learning the same way they approach their own academic research, Derek Bok, a former president of Harvard University, said here Friday at a gathering of higher-education leaders concerned with improving liberal education.

Faculty members deeply believe in experimentation, learning through trial and error, and gathering evidence, "but they do not apply

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