Jay Cross's Informal Learning

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At M.I.T., Large Lectures Are Going the Way of the Blackboard

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

Instead of blackboards, the walls are covered with white boards and huge display screens. two introductory courses are still required — classical mechanics and electromagnetism — but today they meet in high-tech classrooms, where about 80 students sit at 13 round tables equipped with networked computers.