Use your course's big ideas to accelerate students' growth as writers and critical thinkers
The newly revised third edition of Engaging Ideas delivers a step-by-step guide for …

Peer and self-assessment offer an opportunity to scale both assessment and learning to
global classrooms. This article reports our experiences with two iterations of the first large …

Budgetary constraints are creating a current climate of cost containment, within which
increasing class size may be seen as a quick and convenient cost-cutting strategy. Empirical …

Active learning instructional strategies can be created and used to engage students in (a)
thinking critically or creatively,(b) speaking with a partner, in a small group, or with the entire …

Designing and Assessing Courses and Curricula reflects the most current knowledge and
practice in course and curriculum design and connects this knowledge with the critical task …

Marketisation, increased student mobility, the massification of Higher Education (HE) and
stagnating staff numbers in universities have combined to cause a ripple effect of change …

Purpose The primary purpose of this exploratory study was to identify effective teaching
methods for the large class environment. The research questions guiding the study were …

The current paper attempts to examine the various aspects of the discussion method of
teaching at university and its role in enhancing students' linguistic and academic skills as …

A lecture section of introductory biology that historically enrolled more than 500 students
was split into two smaller sections of approximately 250 students each. A traditional lecture …

Small class size is often used as an indicator of quality in higher education, and some
research suggests that instructors in smaller classes more often use activities that are …