Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

Dr. Todd Zakrajsek is an Associate Professor and Associate Director of Fellowship Programs in the Department of Family Medicine, and also the Executive Director of the Academy of Educators in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He has started or reconfigured three centres for faculty support at three different institutions: Southern Oregon State University, Central Michigan University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at Southern Oregon State University he also taught in the psychology department as a tenured associate professor.  Dr. Zakrajsek currently directs four National Conferences on College and University Teaching and Learning and sits on two educationally related boards: ERI for Lenovo Computer and TEI for Microsoft.  He also serves on several editorial boards for journals in the area of teaching and learning.  Dr. Zakrajsek received his PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Ohio University and has published and presented widely on the topic of teaching, academic leadership, and student learning.  His most recent publication is a book co-authored with Terry Doyle: The New Science of Learning (2013).