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Arvanitakis, James – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
In this article I examine the role of the contemporary university in light of the mass increase in class sizes that has occurred on an international scale. While we may look nostalgically back to a time when lectures numbered a few hundred students and tutorials had as few as ten, massification at undergraduate level is an inescapable fact of…
Descriptors: College Role, Class Size, Large Group Instruction, Lecture Method

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