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MIT Moves Away From Massive Lecture Halls
eldavojohn writes "The New York Times is reporting on MIT's migration away from large lectures as many colleges and universities have. Attendance at these lectures often falls to 50 percent by the end of the semester. TEAL (Technology Enhanced Active Learning) gives the students a more hands on approach and may signal the death of the massive lecture hall synonymous with achieving a bachelors of science."
Are you implying that the lecture halls are homosexual?
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This means your chance of getting into MIT just decreased by over 9000%.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Where else can I look at scantly dressed cheerleaders for several hours without being arrested now?
I doubt it was MIT in the first place.
Where will students go to take their afternoon naps now?
...not that there's anything wrong with that.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
Not surprisingly, some of the TA's where were far better educators than the professors they worked for.
Fixed that for you, and please refer to the dictionary entry for irony.
On the other hand, MIT has excellent shooting and fencing teams. We'll just see whose athletic program is superior when the zombie horde overruns Cambridge!
On the other hand, MIT has excellent shooting and fencing teams. We'll just see whose athletic program is superior when the zombie horde overruns Cambridge!
What, is Harvard back in session?
Not surprisingly, some of the TA's were far better educators than the professors they worked for.
Fixed that for you, and please refer to the dictionary entry for irony.
Not surprisingly, some of the TAs were far better educators than the professors they worked for.
For the pedantic, I've fixed another typo.
Being a professor myself I would point out that in my freshman level classes rarely is the front of the class full.
In my 10 years of teaching I've noticed as the students get older they tend to sit closer. I don't know if it's their sight, hearing, or interest-level, but I like to think it's the last possibility. ;-)
Not surprisingly as a group the older students tend to do better than their younger "peers."
Hmmmmmmm....