Strategies for energizing large classes : from small groups to learning communities

By Jean MacGregor, J. Cooper, Karl A. Smith, Pamela Robinson. 2000

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Pedagogies of Engagement: Classroom‐Based Practices (2005, background): “Macgregor, Cooper, Smith, and Robinson [8] provided a synthesis of interviews conducted with forty-eight individuals teaching undergraduate classes across the United States who are infusing their large classes with small-group activities, or are working explicitly to create student communities withi”
Workshop Biology: Demonstrating the Effectiveness of Active Learning in an Introductory Biology Course (2002, background): “Like lab activities, assemblies focused on active learning (for details on incorporating active learning into large classes, see Ebert-May et al. 1997, NRC 1997, MacGregor et al. 2000).”
Peer Instruction versus Class-wide Discussion in Large Classes: A comparison of two interaction methods in the wired classroom (2003, background): “Over the past decade, many higher education teachers have been experimenting with ways of making large lecture classes more interactive (Bligh, 2000; MacGregor et al. , 2000; Edwards et al. , 2001).”