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Large Classes: Keeping the Energy in 220 Relationships at Once

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Large lecture classes for beginning students are a fact of life. Their scale offers huge rewards, like watching a large group of people taking command of a new toolkit for thinking. It also offers (at least) three challenges: keeping students energized, drawing them into the stanford community and into the intellectual community associated with their major, and helping them command a new toolkit they will use in advanced classes. I discuss three keys to meeting these challenges, focusing particularly on the 21st - century students. (11/29/2012)

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