[Edu-sig] Reuters.com -- College Science Classes Are a Bore

[Jason Cunliffe]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - College science lectures are a big bore to students
and need to be replaced with hands-on classes where they can actually learn
better, a team of experts said on Thursday.

"Revolutionary" courses that mimicked the way real scientists actually
work -- by doing science instead of reading about it -- actually helped
students learn and encouraged them to take more science classes, the experts
said.
Dr. Robert Beichner, a professor of physics at North Carolina State
University, and colleagues said educators were still not aware that there
are better ways to teach science...

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