Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back the Pace?

Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by baby on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:10PM (#16318633)

I've had one math class that intertwined short exercise sessions with short lecture sessions and it was the most amazing class I ever had. I still remember everything I learned there.

It was so interesting that the professor would do theorems walkthrough classes which were optional and everyone would attend them.

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Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by aethertap on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:53PM (#16320221)

That sounds fascinating to me - is there any way you could elaborate a bit on the specifics of a typical class structure (how many/how long, were exercises limited to the subject at hand or more integrated with other topics, etc)? I'm trying to raise my own teaching game and that sounds like something I should try.

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Re:Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed B... by baby on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @08:03PM (#16329357)

It was a math analysis class 101 (on limits). The professor would print a one-page summary of the class, hand it to us and go through it. After an hour of class we would do exercises for one hour perhaps, and then get back into the sheet he had handed over us.

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