'Interactive Learning Spaces' at the center of Ball State U.'s faculty development prog... - 29 views
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The rooms are part of a larger faculty development program intended to promote active learning techniques and cut down on lecturing
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university is researching whether teaching at-risk students -- those withdrawing from or earning a D or F in a basic math course -- in the classrooms could improve academic outcomes and, eventually, graduation rates.
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Pavlechko described the two spaces as “intake classrooms” -- faculty members who work in the development program are required to teach in them for two semesters. By the end of this academic year, the classrooms will have hosted 68 faculty members representing 29 of the university’s 48 departments and more than 3,500 students.
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