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Scholarship March 29, 2017

“An Instructor Survival Kit for Use with Large Classes”

The Wabash Center

Author
Gleason, Maryellen
Publisher
American Association for Higher Education Bulletin 39, no. 2 (1986): 10-14
Sooner or later, almost every university teacher confronts having to teach a course with 200 students in it, or suddenly finds 60 enrolled in a course so carefully designed for 20.

For that teacher, we here present Maryellen Gleason's all-too-necessary "survival kit," a set of ideas and resources that recognizes the special challenges of the large class and that can enhance it as an environment for student learning.