How Course Structure Promotes Learning

It is time to get beyond asking whether active learning works. We know it does, most of us have seen it firsthand, and those who haven't would be hard-pressed to argue against the still accumulating mountain of evidence. What we need now are answers to more focused questions, a more nuanced understanding of how and for whom particular strategies work.

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