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However, each semester, some Harvard classes get an unexpectedly large turnout. What happens when the students don't fit in the classroom...
There was no sign or notice posted outside the classroom, however, to inform students that the course, nicknamed "Af-Am 10," would not be offered this semester...
Since teaching is only one of their numerous and dynamic commitments, they bear only a part of teaching responsibilities. The rest of teaching and learning at Harvard is a confused muddle--study groups, casual conversation and diligent self-teachers form the Harvard education. Somewhere in the classroom, however, after the lecture and before the dinner tables, we find the teaching fellows...
...larger courses, sections and the TFs that go with them exist as a check on classroom overcrowding. While a student might not ever be able to pick that favorite TF, as sectioning is often randomized, listing the TFs for these courses would at least give students an idea of a course's personnel structure. Presently, the course listing for Social Analysis 10, the largest course at Harvard with dozens of TFs, is indistinguishable, content aside, from a course on Livy's history of Rome, where ten undergraduates meet with a full professor...
Even in courses that don't deal with personal issues, the Internet can be more welcoming than a traditional classroom, says Mary Furlong, the founder and chairman of ThirdAge Media, an Internet company for an audience of people in their 40s and 50s. "At a certain point you're not sure you belong sitting at a desk in a junior college with a bunch of 22-year-olds," she says. "Online, if you have gray hair, no one notices. Size doesn't matter. Humor matters. Intelligence matters." ThirdAge offers free courses on subjects like learning to invest, finding love online...