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Spare me the lecture

机译:给我讲课

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Richard McCray says he feels like Oprah Winfrey, running up and down the lecture hall with a microphone, mediating student discussion. A professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, McCray began turning his introductory astronomy course inside out three years ago. Rather than lecturing to 200-plus students at a time, McCray divides them into 'cooperative learning teams' of about a dozen people, throws problems at them over the Internet, and then uses the lecture hall to discuss their various solutions. He did not innovate for the sake of it ― he was deeply worried about the poor teaching performance of America's leading research universities. "We're losing talented people; we're driving students away," he says. "They don't like these large lecture courses." Although educational institutions in many countries are struggling with similar issues, US research universities face a particularly tough problem in matching their specialist interests to the demands of society. A typical introductory science class consists of a couple of hundred students, most of whom have no plans to continue with the subject, nor a great deal of prior knowledge. But in a world that increasingly depends on science and technology, it is more important than ever that these students learn the scientific basics. And that makes McCray's bleak assessment of the teaching failure of US research universities a matter of genuine social concern.
机译:理查德·麦克雷(Richard McCray)说,他感觉像奥普拉·温弗瑞(Oprah Winfrey)一样,带着麦克风在演讲厅里来回走动,对学生的讨论进行调解。麦克雷(McCray)是科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的一名教授,三年前开始将他的入门天文学课程改头换面。麦克雷没有一次讲授200多名学生,而是将他们分为大约十二个人的“合作学习团队”,通过互联网向他们提出问题,然后使用演讲厅讨论他们的各种解决方案。他没有为此而创新-他对美国领先的研究型大学的糟糕教学表现深表担忧。他说:“我们正在失去人才;我们正在把学生赶走。” “他们不喜欢这些大型讲座课程。”尽管许多国家的教育机构都在努力解决类似的问题,但美国研究型大学在使其专业兴趣与社会需求相匹配方面面临着特别棘手的问题。典型的入门科学课由几百名学生组成,其中大多数人没有计划继续学习该科目,也没有大量的先验知识。但是,在这个日益依赖科学和技术的世界中,这些学生学习科学基础比以往任何时候都更为重要。这使麦克雷对美国研究型大学教学失败的惨淡评估成为真正的社会关注问题。

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    《Nature》 |2003年第6955期|p.234-236|共3页
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