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Bubak, Oldrich. 2019. “A bottom-up drive to transform tertiary teaching.” University Affairs, March.

…To be sure, system-wide reforms, namely when mandated from above, can be very difficult to effect as they meet the forces of culture, habit, as well as economics. Yet, as deep change can be set in motion in less common places, there is a dual promise on the horizon – a bottom-up drive to improve teaching with a potential to expand career possibilities…

 

Bubak, Oldrich. 2017. “Taking on the teaching free-for-all in higher education.” University Affairs, October.

…We talk of novel pedagogies such as flipped classrooms or experiential learning, yet we don’t have the fundamentals in place to ensure a baseline: a set of standard processes for teaching and learning or, at a minimum, an understanding of what works and when…