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How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes

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What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Anonymous In my experience, it’s true that small classes provide greater opportunities for student engagement and for professor/mentor relationships to occur. It’s worth noting, though, that the courses that were large tended to emphasize knowledge-based material.

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How to Build Lifelong Learners

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It is a daily cerebral adventure, fully as engaging as Star Wars , as challenging as The Matrix , and as gratifying as The Life of Pi. The concept of lifelong learning recognizes that knowledge is not confined to a classroom but takes place throughout life and in a range of situations. Lifelong learning is a better way.

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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

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Their stances on education policy differ, but they all have at least one thing in common: classroom experience, which Biden has promised would be a prerequisite. Students from Meriden, students from Connecticut and Latino students in general are going to be looking at him … and have an opportunity to say, ‘Yes, this could be me.’

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Students don’t pay attention to lectures, they would argue. WTF is Unizin ?!

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