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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.
Current Topics
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.
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.
