Accelerating the transformation of teaching and learning

Members of the new Teaching & Learning Leaders Alliance share ideas and jointly develop best practices for their classrooms.

A pressing challenge for business educators is determining how to keep teaching and learning practices relevant to a diverse — and increasingly distracted ‐ student body. What counts as learning? How do business educators bridge the gap between knowledge and skills? How can they help faculty develop as teachers?

Dan Gruber, associate dean of teaching and learning, shares strategies to develop the teaching and learning environment at W. P. Carey in this story published April 27, 2020, in BizEd Magazine:

For example, our instructional designers partner with the university’s technology office to hold faculty training on using Slack for teaching and learning. We hold monthly workshops where faculty share best practices for everything from delivering case-based teaching to creating inclusive, innovative, and nontraditional classrooms.