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The Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Technology for Education strive to enhance the quality of education at Carnegie Mellon. We collaborate with our colleagues to improve courses and learning environments by broadening their understanding of the science of learning and how new pedagogical approaches and technologies can enhance student performance.
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Faculty who teach large classes often face unique challenges when it comes to meaningfully engaging students, monitoring students' understanding of reading assignments, efficiently administering in-class quizzes or gauging ongoing learning in real-time. Classroom Response Systems or "Clicker" may provide a useful technology to address some of these issues. Three organizations jointly support faculty to help with integrating clickers into your teaching, using the technology, and in-class help.
This site is created to begin to surface and share successful assessments that have been developed within various academic units on campus. Content provided here is intended to help instructors and departments improve their collection and use of assessment data for instructor, course, and program feedback purposes. >> GO
The landscape of technology that can be used to support project-based collaborative learning is vast and varied. Educators can benefit from a more detailed and disaggregated view of what tools are available, and how they can be used most effectively in support of specific teaching and learning goals. > Read Whitepaper (pdf)
Sharing audio and video files on the Web has been possible for most of the last decade. Why, then, in the past two years has podcasting exploded onto the scene and become such a hot topic in educational technology?
This document was created in response to faculty requests for information and advice concerning teaching in an increasingly multi-cultural setting, and it is organized around issues raised by faculty themselves in a series of discussions conducted over the past several years.
