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Good teaching in large classes

In this seminar, experienced teachers of large classes shared their strategies for keeping their classes active and engaging. It’s not about the tools, but how you use them to meet the needs of your learners, staying true to your teaching approach.

References:

McKeachie, W. (1980). Improving lectures by understanding students’ information processing. In McKeachie, W.J. (Ed.), Learning, Cognition, and College Teaching. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, No. 2. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.
Learning spaces e-book by EDUCAUSE
Good, M. (2001). On the Way to Online Pedagogy (Chapter 13) in John Stephenson (ed.). Teaching and Learning Online: Pedagogies for New Technologies. [Online]
Lyman, F. (1981). The Responsive Class Discussion. In A. S. Anderson (ed.), Mainstreaming Digest. College Park: College of Education, University of Maryland, 1981. (Think-pair-share technique)
Thiagi, S. (2005). Thiagi’s Interactive lectures: Power up your training with interative games and exercises. USA: ASTD Press.
George Brown (1978). Lecturing and Explaining. London: Methuen. (Peer squares-peer assessment technique)
Shenk, D. (1997) Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut, San Francisco: HarperCollins.  

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