[james_s_tayler]

Professors can massively improve their pedagogy if motivated to do so.

I once had a professor who was new to teaching. It was a very painful experience and the entire CS class spent every lecture murmuring among themselves how terrible the lecture was. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and waited to 2 weeks to see if the lectures would improve. They didn't. At the end of one lecture I went and spoke to him and told him directly he was by far the worst teacher I had encountered at University and that as students we expected higher quality instruction.

From the next week on he was a good lecturer. It was a total transformation. I was seriously impressed. I guess he just never really thought about the pedagogical side of things before but to get such a rude wake up call really jolted him into action and he actually had a pretty good capacity to teach after that.