How Big Data Is Taking Teachers Out of the Lecturing Business: Scientific American - 0 views
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David Heckman, a mathematician, was accustomed to lecturing to the class, but he had to take on the role of a roving mentor, responding to raised hands and coaching students when they got stumped
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Like institutions at every level of American education, it is going through some wrenching changes. The university has lost 50 percent of its state funding over the past five years.
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alarmingly high numbers of students showing up on campus unprepared to do college-level work.
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