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Indeed, it seems many students share Christman's sentiments. Whereas the "traditional" approach towards teaching large science classes consists of a professor writing equations and topics on the blackboard, Mazur's approach places more emphasis on the students teaching themselves...
...blackboard, Cady divides four-year colleges into three groups: competitive colleges, including those in the Ivy League; less competitive ones, among which he includes the private, local St. Louis and Washington universities; and state universities, such as Missouri and Truman State. "You need to have a conversation with your parents about what you can afford," Cady tells them. So, next to his competitive and less competitive lists, he writes $30,000. "And this would be just for tuition." Next to Truman State, he writes $8,000 and calls it "the best value in Missouri." At Truman, he adds...
Ithaca high school physics teacher Steve Wirt gets e-mail from parents regularly, some from moms and dads he believes might otherwise not pick up the phone with a concern. Using software called Blackboard CourseInfo, designed to make website building intuitive for teachers, Wirt conducts online chats with his students, often reviewing for a quiz or discussing homework problems...
...proctors take their task very seriously. And it shows. No professor ever took so much delight in writing (no, inscribing) the time on the board every five minutes in eardrum-scraping chalk marks, never noticing the clock hanging two feet above the blackboard. Or consider the relish with which they announce that "Writing after the exam is considered CHEATING, and proctors will DOCUMENT ALL INCIDENTS after the exam." (Never happened to Dartboard...
...somewhat like a scaled-down version of an omni-max theater. Having taken classes in both the old and new auditoriums, Lee Hampton '01 considers the new room "an improvement, but not a life-changing experience...the view is better than the old auditorium if the professor uses the blackboard a great deal." In the end, Hampton does not see a great distinction between the auditorium and other lecture halls...