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Improving Quality and Reducing Cost: Designs for Effective Learning.
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Twigg, Carol A. – Change, 2003
Discusses 30 institutions participating in a program exploring how large-enrollment introductory courses can be redesigned using technology to extend access to a new population of students without trading quality for cost savings. (EV)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Course Organization, Higher Education
An Experiment in Self-Paced Physics
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Papke, David Ray – Change, 1973
At Harvard, physics courses are divided into units that the students can master at their own pace and that offer more student-teacher contact and personal attention. (PG)
Descriptors: Course Organization, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction, Physics
England's Open University: Revolution at Milton Keynes
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Maclure, Stuart – Change, 1971
England is revolutionizing its entire educational system with its Open University of extension education. (Editor/IR)
Descriptors: Correspondence Study, Course Organization, Educational Innovation, Educational Radio
Workshop Physics: Learning Introductory Physics by Doing It.
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Laws, Priscilla – Change, 1991
At Dickinson College (Pennsylvania), a workshop approach to teaching introductory physics, in which students alternate hands-on experience and theoretical discussion, has been effective in improving student attitudes toward the subject, helping students master concepts considered difficult to teach, making students comfortable with laboratory…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, Course Organization, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Experiential Learning