ABSTRACT
The centrality of higher education to the future of the world gains momentum with each new report on the state of the social and geopolitical global economy. A digitally driven, knowledge-based, radically connected world demands thinkers, creators, and high-functioning doers. Technology applications, such as the one integrated into the pedagogy matters practice improvement model, are harbingers of a capability that can ignite a true revolution in the art and science of college teaching. Technology harnessed to improve college teaching has enormous potential but so little work focuses systematically on helping college faculty teach, the field is grossly underdeveloped. The serious study of college teaching has been hobbled by the lack of clear metrics, common language, and observational data. With these ingredients in hand, college faculty would be able, as the authors have demonstrated with the pedagogy practice improvement model, to examine their own teaching and change their behaviors within a trajectory of increasing mastery.
