LARGE CLASSES

Relating to Large Classes
Faculty Forum workshop, June 11, 2003.
Facilitated by Stephanie Nickerson
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/Faculty/citl/articles/docs/
notes_6-11-03.pdf

How to Use Blackboard for Course Management (especially in large classes)
Handout from Faculty Forum workshop, June 11, 2003.
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/Faculty/citl/articles/docs/
handout_6-11-03.pdf

How to Have a Relationship with a Large Class
Faculty Forum workshop, February 25, 2003.
Facilitated by Stephanie Nickerson
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/Faculty/citl/articles/docs/
large_classes_2-25-03.pdf

Teaching Large Classes Guide
University of Maryland (2002)
http://www.cte.umd.edu/library/lcn/index.html
A comprehensive website with many related links

Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture Class
Barbara Gross Davis (1993). Tools for Teaching http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/largelecture.html

Teaching Large Classes
Office of Instructional Development and Technology,
Dalhousie University
http://www.dal.ca/~oidt/online_resources.html
Graham Gibbs narrates a 14 minute online video

Large Classes and the Perception of Fairness
Adapted from Rita Rodabaugh (1994)
http://www.id.ucsb.edu/IC/Resources/
LargeClasses_fairness.html

The "Change-up" in Lectures
Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish
National Teaching and Learning Forum (1996)
http://www.ntlf.com:80/html/pi/9601/article1.htm

Large Class FAQ
Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Penn State University (2001)
http://www.psu.edu/celt/largeclass/lcfaq.shtml

Beating the Numbers Game: Effective Teaching in Large Classes
Richard M. Felder (1997)
http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/Papers/Largeclasses.htm
A practical how-to for using active learning and effective management in very large classes.

Resources for Teaching Large Classes
The Regents of the University of California (1999)
http://www.id.ucsb.edu/IC/Resources/LargeClasses.html

Alternative Teaching/Learning Methods
Faculty Forum workshop, April 2, 2003. (updated April 2004)
Facilitated by Stephanie Nickerson
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/Faculty/citl/articles/docs/
handout_alternative_april04.doc
Included are small group learning, ungraded quizzes, student presentations and others.

Large Classes: Limiting the Chaos
University of Waterloo
http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infotrac/largeclass.html
Thoughtful tips

How to Customize Big Classes
David. G. Brown, Syllabus (Feb. 2003).
http://www.syllabus.com/article.asp?id=7257
Delegating, communicating, collaborating and customizing through computer use.

Big, but Not Bad
Thomas Bartlett, Chronicle of Higher Education (5/9/03)
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i35/35a01201.htm
Teaching huge classes: successes and failures.

From three 50-minute classes to one three-hour
Margo Husby Scheelar, email post to Forum for Teaching & Learning in Higher Education <STLHE-L@LISTSERV.UNB.CA>, January 7, 2004.
http://listserv.unb.ca/bin/wa?A2=ind0401&L=stlhe-l&P=2339

Teaching Large Classes
Newsletter, New York University (1999)
http://www.nyu.edu/cte/resources/ENLSep99.pdf
NYU faculty, including several from Stern, discuss their approaches to teaching large classes.