Teaching large classes[1] can be a challenge for some instructors, with challenges including lack of flexibility, class climate management, difficulty of setting and enforcing classroom behavior, ...

Coupled with the waves of excitement, anticipation and hope of a new school year, UC Berkeley’s infamous large-size courses await new and returning students. Campus sophomore Ansh Vashisth described ...

I’m a college professor and I love teaching large sections. But in the world of higher ed there’s so much presumption that I’m somehow “settling” for larger sections, or providing a lousy product with ...

Stepping away from the front of the lecture hall renders educators more approachable, and more able to catch the eye of a ...

Many of my conversations with faculty focus on the challenges they have with doing good learning assessment in large classes. The best learner-centered assessment approaches are no match for ...

The following sections on teaching large classes are designed to provide departments and faculty a list of best practices for designing large lecture classes and their recitation sections for Fall ...

There are, indeed, a number of ways that large classes can be engaging (“Teaching a Sea of Students,” The Chronicle, February 24). Learning is an active process, not passive. It takes place in the ...

Laci Gerhart, associate professor of teaching at UC Davis, is an enthusiastic user of Know Your Students, a web app that provides instructors with de-identified demographic information about their ...

Students in an 8 a.m. principles of data management class talk among each other as they solve a data base problem. Sometimes they get up and write on a 6-foot whiteboard on wheels that doubles as a ...

In Fall 2021, several faculty members came together throughout the semester to discuss how we can facilitate more active learning in large (greater than 35 students) courses. In our initial discussion ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Due to the rapidly spreading omicron COVID-19 variant, Willamette University will be moving many of its large classes online to start the next semester. First reported by the ...

Parents at Impact Puget Sound Elementary are asking the state to step in to address the lack of social distancing in its classrooms. Staff have also have voiced safety concerns - but say they hold ...