Lauren Barbeau is the Assistant Director of Learning and Technology Initiatives at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. Lauren is passionate about enhancing the value and quality of teaching in higher education. As the co-author of Critical Teaching Behaviors: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching, she hopes to help higher ed identify, foster, evaluate, and reward effective teaching.

Lauren earned her Ph.D. in English from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. She has taught writing, literature, and pedagogy courses at the community college and university level since 2011. She began a part-time career in educational development in 2013 and subsequently served in full-time roles at Georgia Southern University and the University of Georgia. In her current role at Georgia Institute of Technology, she assists faculty in finding the right technological tools to meet their pedagogical needs as the Assistant Director of Learning and Technology Initiatives in the Center for Teaching and Learning.  

View Lauren’s OneHE course “Transforming Teaching Through Peer Observation.”