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Integrating Inquiry-Guided Learning across the Curriculum: The Top 25 Project at Miami University
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Taylor, Beverley A. P.; Bakker, Andrea I.; Nadler, Marjorie Keeshan; Shore, Cecilia; Dietz-Uhler, Beth – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2012
In 2006, Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) launched a major initiative, the Top 25 Project, to embed inquiry-guided learning (IGL) into its largest-enrollment courses across the university. These are generally entry-level classes and thus affect many students: 75 percent of incoming students on its main campus in 2010 were in at least one Top 25…
Descriptors: Models, Large Group Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Instructional Design
Strategies for Energizing Large Classes: From Small Groups to Learning Communities. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
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MacGregor, Jean, Ed.; Cooper, James L., Ed.; Smith, Karl A., Ed.; Robinson, Pamela, Ed. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2000
This volume is a synthesis of interviews conducted with 48 teachers who are infusing their large classes (over 100 students) with small-group activities or are working explicitly to create student communities within large classes. The chapters are: chapter 1, "The Argument for Making Large Classes Seem Small" (James L. Cooper and Pamela…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Class Organization, Class Size, Large Group Instruction
The Power of Problem-Based Learning in Teaching Introductory Science Courses.
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Allen, Deborah E.; And Others – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1996
In its use of complex, real-world problems to introduce concepts and motivate learning in an active and cooperative learning environment, problem-based learning is a powerful alternative to the passive lecture in introductory college science. Use of technology and multimedia instruction, focus on large classes, and use of interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, College Science