{"625588":{"#nid":"625588","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How to Engage Students and Support Learning in Large Classes","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. However, I am dubious that the approaches you describe work with large classes. What about when you have 50-60 students in a class? Or even hundreds? ... Way back on episode 25 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, I talked to another expert at engaging large groups of students: \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.biosci.gatech.edu\/people\/chrissy-spencer\u0022\u003EChrissy Spencer\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E, who teaches at\u0026nbsp;Georgia Tech. One of her big lessons is to invite her students to become active participants\u0026mdash;in one example she invites them to play the part of a chili pepper population in a simulation designed to teach evolutionary processes.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2019-09-04 15:20:23","changed_gmt":"2019-09-04 15:20:23","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Free Samples","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2019-08-28-how-to-engage-students-and-support-learning-in-large-classes","dateline":{"date":"2019-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-08-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614085":{"id":"614085","type":"image","title":"Chrissy Spencer","body":null,"created":"1541790705","gmt_created":"2018-11-09 19:11:45","changed":"1541790705","gmt_changed":"2018-11-09 19:11:45","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233785","name":"cspencer2.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cspencer2.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/cspencer2.png","mime":"image\/png","size":248908,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/cspencer2.png?itok=JB8VuaqJ"}}},"media_ids":["614085"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1877","name":"Higher Education"},{"id":"182209","name":"teaching large classes"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}