Cynthia Alby

Professor of Teacher Education and Faculty Director of GC Journeys, Georgia College and State University

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Cynthia Alby joined Georgia College in 2001, where she is a professor of teacher education and faculty director of GC Journeys. She works extensively with the Center for Teaching and Learning and is also the lead lecturer for Georgia College’s “Governor’s Teaching Fellows,” a faculty development program with which she has worked since 2001. Alby has spent most of her career immersed in “avid cross-disciplinary idea synthesizing.” She studies pedagogy, sociology, psychology, neuroscience, behavioral economics, and in 2020 she earned a certification in applied positive psychology. She published a book, Learning that Matters: A Field Guide to Course Design for Transformative Education (2020), with several colleagues.


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