TuftsAT

It doesn't matter what method you use if you do not first focus on one intangible factor: the bond between professor and student.

his job is less about being an expert imparting facts and figures, and more about being a salesman convincing students that his material is worth their attention

Whatever tool professors can find to conjure that—curiosity and a sense of amazing possibilities—is what they should use

So, in an adjacent classroom, a group of students wearing 3-D glasses made by Nvidia, a graphics processing firm, dissected a virtual cadaver projected on a screen. Using a computer to control the stereoscopic view, they swooped through the virtual body, its sections as brightly colored as living tissue. First, the students scrutinized layers of sinewy pink muscles layered over ivory bones. Then, with the click of a mouse, they examined a close-up of the heart, watching as deep blue veins and bright red arteries made the heart pump.