About TLL

Lori Breslow, Director
lrb@mit.edu

Lori Breslow, Ph.D., has been the Director of the Teaching & Learning Laboratory since its inception in 1997. She is responsible for setting policy and priorities for TLL, developing and managing TLL’s research agenda in STEM teaching and learning, and overseeing programming and services.

Dr. Breslow is also a Senior Lecturer in the Sloan School of Management where she teaches courses in professional and managerial communication.  In addition, she teaches a doctoral-level course on teaching science and engineering in the university, and an intercultural communication course within MIT’s Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.

She is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Engineering Education, MIT OpenCourseWare’s Assessment and Evaluation Advisory Board, and MIT’s Council on Educational Technology. She has been a visiting scholar at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa, and the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, Georgetown University.

Dr. Breslow's research interests are in interdisciplinary education and the dissemination of educational innovation. Her doctorate is in communication from New York University, and her B.A. is in history from Indiana University.