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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

Peer Response to Low Stakes Writing in a WAC Literature Classroom.

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Sargent, M. Elizabeth – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1997

College courses which use writing across the curriculum (WAC) principles encourage students to write about assigned readings and to respond to each other's writings, resulting in better learning of course concepts and the experience of participating in a discipline's ongoing conversation. Guidelines for setting up peer response groups in both…

Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Feedback, Higher Education

Student Involvement: Active Learning in Large Classes.

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Frederick, Peter J. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1987

Suggestions to help faculty discover ways of achieving interactive, investigatory, and intimate learning environments in large settings are provided. The instructional objective is to empower students to take responsibility for their own learning. (MLW)

Descriptors: Brainstorming, Class Size, College Instruction, College Students