Teaching Large Classes in Higher Education: How to Maintain Quality with Reduced Resources

ISBN-13: 9780749406004 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 176 str.

Graham Gibbs; Alan Jenkins

Opis

Over the past 10 years, the number of students enrolled in individual higher-education courses has risen dramatically. Consequently, new challenges are having to be met: course design and teaching methods must be modified if quality is to be maintained.

Spis treści

Part 1 Theoretical issues: the experience of teaching and learning in large classes; chaos and loneliness or organization and communication; mechanization or autonomy. Part 2 Case studies: active learning in structured lectures; teaching introductory law the workbook way; guided reading in biology - a modified Keller system; teaching mathematics - problems and varied solutions; rationalizing laboratory practicals; teaching introductory physics; group project-based field courses; home and work study networks in business studies; course teams - a portfolio of strategies. Part 3 Institutional support for change: improving teaching and learning in large classes.

O autorze

Edited by Gibbs, Graham, ; Jenkins, Alan,