A faculty panel explores the intersection of learning goals, teaching excellence, and course evaluations At a recent lunch sponsored by Stanford’s Year of Learning initiative and attended by more than 50 educators, a panel of distinguished university teachers discussed how to formulate effective learning goals, how those goals can be used to improve teaching on campus, and how they can be advanced through the new course evaluation system that Stanford has recently adopted. The overarching topic for the Year of Learning’s Fall quarter has been “The Art and Science of Teaching and Learning,”...