Word: designators
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Give teachers time and resources to design new and significantly enriched courses—courses with broader appeal, compelling goals, and a capacity to actively engage students in solving problems, improving basic skills, and handling authentic materials. Most faculty members will not need to do additional teaching, but virtually all will need to sharpen their teaching skills and develop broader course offerings (often using research assistance or a month of paid summer time). Compelling and effective courses will be in demand for secondary fields and electives as well as general education—and three years from now we should...
...full range of pedagogical skills. As reform proceeds, the College and the Graduate School must encourage additional, more flexible deployment of teaching fellows, not to substitute for faculty engagement with undergraduates, but to allow TFs to partner with faculty in seminars that combine lectures and discussions, to help design course materials and “hands-on” learning environments, and to support courses with improved technologies. Departments, in turn, should be allowed to spend teaching fellow budgets flexibly and creatively...
...Fork (Phaidon Press) Following the success of Spoon, 10 renowned design-world figures, including I.D. Magazine editor Julie Lasky, curate a book showcasing 100 cutting-edge product designers...
What do hotshot designers Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey and Job Smeets have in common? They all graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven. The Dutch college and graduate program is a breeding ground for the high-concept work that's dominating industrial design. Students study in departments with esoteric names like Man and Living and Man and Identity. But for a little real-world experience, pupils can collaborate on projects with companies such as Nike and Swarovski...
...Every time that Stefan [Behnisch, the architect of the science complex] has come back, his design has gotten lower and lower,” she said...