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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463606803321

Autore

Howard Jay R.

Titolo

Discussion in the college classroom : getting your students engaged and participating in person and online / / Jay R. Howard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2015

©2015

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/25

Soggetti

College teaching

Seminars

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : why bother with classroom discussion? -- Is anyone really paying attention? -- The challenge of dominant talkers -- Students' differing definitions of the classroom -- Making online discussion work -- To grade or not to grade? and other conundrums.

Sommario/riassunto

Keep students engaged and actively learning with focused, relevant discussion  Second only to lecture as the most widely used instructional strategy, there's no better method than classroom discussion to actively engage students with course material. Most faculty are not aware that there is an extensive body of research on the topic from which instructors can learn to facilitate exceptional classroom discussion. Discussion in the College Classroom is a practical guide which utilizes that research, frames it sociologically, and offers advice, along with a wide variety of strategies, to help you