Minerva Project Announces Annual $500,000 Prize for Professors: Measured how?
May 17, 2013 at 1:48 am 3 comments
How would one measure extraordinary, innovative teaching? We have a difficult time measuring regular teaching!
The Minerva Project, a San Francisco venture with lofty but untested plans to redefine higher education, said on Monday that starting next year it would award an annual $500,000 prize to a faculty member at any institution in the world who has demonstrated extraordinary, innovative teaching.
via Minerva Project Announces Annual $500,000 Prize for Professors – NYTimes.com.
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Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take 
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Greg Wilson | May 17, 2013 at 8:10 am
Five bucks says “innovative” turns out to be “used technology we can build a startup around, and gave an eloquent TED talk”.
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Mark Guzdial | May 17, 2013 at 8:16 am
I wish WordPress supported “like” buttons on comments :-). I’m sure I’d lose if I took that bet, Greg.
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Mark Urban-Lurain | May 17, 2013 at 9:21 am
I agree with Greg.
How about a prize for innovative student learning?