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I'm Janet Rankin.

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I'm the Interim Director of
the Teaching and Learning Lab

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here at MIT.

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And for the past four years,
I've been teaching 595J.

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It has a lot of other numbers,
but it's Teaching College-Level

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Science and Engineering.

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Well, before I
came to MIT, I was

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on the faculty at
Brown University,

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and I taught in the
engineering department there.

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And it was very
interesting to me

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how you could either do a really
good job teaching, or not so

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good a job teaching.

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So I started to get interested
in some of the theory

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and some of the best
practices associated

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with teaching specifically
to engineering,

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but teaching in general.

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And I worked in the
Teaching and Learning Center

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at Brown for a while.

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And so when there
was the opportunity

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to come here and work at MIT in
the Teaching and Learning Lab,

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I thought it would be great--
a great opportunity to come

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and work with other scientists
and engineers who are also

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interested in improving
teaching, or using

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research-based best
practices in teaching.