The problem

Our educational model is predicated on an expert lecturing to a class of attentive disciples. We rely on standardized repeated exams. As a junior accounting professor, I was encouraged to take a senior faculty member’s teaching notes and simply go and deliver the material. Rely on older exams or some variant thereof. Have a standard key to grade the exams. In essence, minimize the time spent on teaching so that I can work on research and get tenure. To be fair, my senior professors were watching out for me and were trying to put me on the shortest path to tenure. Click here to read the full article