Professors Know About High-Tech Teaching Methods, but Few Use Them
Innovation is sweeping the world of higher education, but not all faculty members are embracing it in their classrooms. Anew survey from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has found that 40 percent of the professors surveyed use or are interested in using innovative techniques and technologies. But of that 40 percent, only half—or 20 percent of the overall survey sample—have actually used them. The survey asked professors whether they had used various kinds of high-tech teaching methods, including clickers, the flipped-classroom model, hybrid courses, and social media or discussion forums.