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Teaching Large Classes – Best Practices
Brief analyses of why and how to use technology effectively when teaching large classes.
http://www.uwo.ca/tsc/tlc/bestpractices.html
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Using the World Wide Web to Enhance Classroom Instruction
An extended article describing the benefits and best practices of classroom technology use.
http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/732
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Answering and Asking Questions (pdf)
Makes suggestions regarding questioning techniques that are appropriate for lecture classes as well as for discussion groups. Idea Paper no. 31, from the series developed by the Center for faculty Evaluation and development, Kansas State University.
http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_31.pdf
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Clicking With Large Classes
In this interview, an assistant professor reflects on her choices and successes in teaching a large Intro to Anthropology lecture class: encouraging a "need to know" in her students, establishing an active learning environment, and getting students to prepare for class.
http://tep.uoregon.edu/resources/librarylinks/articles/clicking.html
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Focusing on Active, Meaningful Learning (pdf)
A short article in which a teaching-scholar defines what she means by “active and meaningful learning,” discusses unstructured cooperative learning and critical thinking, and reflects on experience in using these concepts in the courses she teaches and the textbooks she writes. Idea Paper no. 34, from the series developed by the Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development, Kansas State University.
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_34.pdf
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Guided Notes: Improving the Effectiveness of your Lectures
An excerpt from “Improving The Effectiveness Of Your Lectures,“ by William L. Heward, outlining an approach to enhancing the effectiveness of student learning during lectures – through instructor-prepared handouts providing students with background information and cues to write key facts, concepts, and/or relationships during the lecture.
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/495.html
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Improving Instructors’ Speaking Skills (pdf)
Based on experimental research of effective speaking, this article reviews: what is effective lecture delivery; how lecturers c an analyze their classroom delivery; and how lecturers can improve their classroom delivery. Idea Paper no. 14, from the series developed by the Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development, Kansas State University.
http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_24.pdf
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Improving Lectures (pdf)
A 4 page paper that reviews the strengths and weaknesses of lectures, and provides a concise list of recommended practices. Lots of bibliography for further reading. Idea Paper no. 14, from the series developed by the Center for faculty Evaluation and development, Kansas State University.
http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_14.pdf
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National Center for Academic Transformation
Resources for redesigning large course, to achieve improved efficiency, cost effectiveness and increased student learning.
http://thencat.org
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