MIT Teaching

At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard - from the NY Times.

I hope more classes at colleges are like this in the future. I am so afraid of my daughter taking a class with 300 other students and getting little out of it. How can a teach interact with 300 students? It's hard enough with a class of 30 to 40. At my college, I only had one class that was a large scale auditorium (Cal Poly, Pomona prides itself on being hands on). The use of a device where students can signal an answer is useful, another way is a bit old fashioned is having people raise their hands.