Codon’s team of education researchers reflect on a fascinating story of how Anne Casper at Eastern Michigan University developed a successful high-structure course—over time and trial and error.
Scott Freeman describes an introductory biology course for majors in which students come prepared, learn study strategies based on cognitive science, and know what to focus on.
By Scott Freeman (University of Washington) When I started working on textbooks in 1996, my goal was to help change the way introductory biology is taught. But after 20,000 hours and 14 years of working on that project, I walked away. I’d given up on the idea that textbooks can be agents of change
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