The Center for Teaching and Learning’s longest-running lecture series, Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching, invites faculty winners of Stanford’s major teaching awards to deliver a lecture on a teaching topic of their choice.
The talks from 2012 are featured below; an archive of past talks on Award Winning Teachers on Teaching is available on the CTL site.
Talks: Award Winning Teachers on Teaching
Daphne Koller
(Stanford University)
"The Online Revolution: High-Quality Education for the 100%"
Date: 05/17/2012
Description:
Whereas technology and automation have made almost all segments of our economy vastly more efficient, education today isn’t much different than it was 300 years ago. Now we have a tremendous opportunity to use modern internet and AI technology to offer a high-quality education inexpensively online. I’ll describe our recent experiments in online education and discuss why this model can provide an improved classroom experience for on-campus students as well as giving millions of people around the world a premier education previously available only to a tiny few.
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Jennifer Summit
(Stanford University)
Teaching for Learning
Play YouTube Video
Date: 02/03/2012
Description:
Professor Jennifer Summit discusses recent research on undergraduate literacy and intellectual development. She explores how it can transform university teaching, learning, and disciplinary knowledge.
Margot Gerritse
(Stanford University)
Jump In, the Water is Lovely!
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Date: 01/26/2012
Description:
Professor Margot Gerritsen shares her experience being a math instructor, swim coach, and cheerleader simultaneously. She shares her thoughts on how to help new graduate students overcome common anxieties and thrive.
Robert Siegel
(Stanford University)
Adventures in the Edusphere: Reflections on a Career in Academia
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Date: 05/10/2012
Description:
Teaching is a great adventure. Through a series of personal anecdotes, this talk will emphasize the extraordinary rewards, opportunities, experimentation, coincidences, and good fortune of teaching at Stanford.