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Re:Why Don't Professors Share Teaching Practices the Way The... by gnicholas on Monday November 28, 2016 @01:09PM (#13057215)
> People also need to realize, college instructors aren't paid to teach. They're paid to research and so of course they'll be lazy on sharing what they've learned from teaching.

Tenure-track professors are rewarded mostly based on research, but many classes are taught by lecturers, instructors, adjuncts, and other non-tenure-track teaching staff. These people should care about teaching efficacy, though they are often overworked (see below) so perhaps they just don't have time.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/14/opinion/the-college-facult...

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/05/the-cos...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/24/exploi...

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Re:Why Don't Professors Share Teaching Practices the Way The... by purple-dragon on Monday November 28, 2016 @01:16PM (#13057264)
You say overworked, but I think underpaid is the more important aspect to consider for that class of teaching positions. The effort/compensation ratio is not incentivizing.
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Re:Why Don't Professors Share Teaching Practices the Way The... by gozur88 on Monday November 28, 2016 @06:07PM (#13059229)
>Tenure-track professors are rewarded mostly based on research, but many classes are taught by lecturers, instructors, adjuncts, and other non-tenure-track teaching staff.

But a lot of those people are teaching to pay the bills as they do research in an effort to get on the tenure track.

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