Sentence examples for in large courses from inspiring English sources

We present a framework of college instructors' pedagogical knowledge for active-learning instruction in large courses.

We draw extensively on the writing of our participants to describe each component, using quotes to reveal how instructors think about active learning in large courses.

Participants had used active learning in large courses for a median of four (SD = 3.4) years, and 27 instructors reported five or more years of experience.

In large courses, productive ways to engage the instructional team can become an integral part of incorporating active learning tools (Seymour 2005).

The framework emerging from this study represents the collective knowledge of 77 college biology instructors who use active-learning instruction in large courses.

What is clear is that our current approach to preparing undergraduate instructors is unlikely to be successful in helping them effectively plan and implement active-learning instruction in large courses.

Typically, graduate students lead discussion sessions in large lecture courses, grade papers and tests, and sometimes run actual courses.

Asking students to engage in generative work in a large course raises different logistical challenges than lecturing.

In a large course, grading assignments is a time-consuming process requiring considerable resources.

Furthermore, all of our participants had tried active-learning instruction in a large course, and they had more experience with teaching professional development and discipline-based education research than we expect in typical instructors.

The practical concerns of what it takes to plan and manage the logistics of an active-learning lesson in a large course have received little research attention, but we hypothesize that this knowledge is crucial to effectively execute a large active-learning course.