In interactive exercises, participants were also introduced to student-centered teaching methodologies such as the use of arts and drama, images and artifacts.
It included the staff-student ratio as a measure of teaching quality.
In another MOOC she took run by a University of Pennsylvania professor, a half-dozen teaching assistants shepherded student discussion online and cheating was much less pervasive, she said.
And in Maine, the student population increased almost 11 percent yet non-teaching staff rose 76 percent.
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In the District of Columbia, the student population declined almost 15 percent yet non-teaching personnel grew by 42 percent.
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To dampen the ill-will that arises when regular faculty began to envy the student-free lives of the academic heroes the wealthier universities have consistently moved toward across-the-board reductions in teaching loads, with not-so-wealthy schools imitating this trend as best they can.
The private schools' body calls for the recruitment of student teachers to become a more rigorous process, with front-line teaching staff sitting on selection panels.
Indeed, evidence suggests that quality of teaching is the most important non-demographic contributor to student learning.
"We've learned it's important to set up vivid analogies, " said Lyle Tomlinson, a 24-year-old neuroscience graduate student from Brooklyn who's working as a teaching assistant, noting he used the effects of caffeine in a morning cup of coffee to begin a discussion on the nervous system.
For example, in Hawaii, student enrollment in public schools jumped about 3 percent between 1992 and 2009 yet non-teaching personnel jumped almost 69 percent.
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It recognises Bath's all-round excellence, encompassing a range of aspects of research, teaching, employability and student experience.
If I give a speech to a student-run college club of women for example, and I tell them my expertise costs nothing, what am I teaching them about themselves?
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And I want to know what your administration is going to do for young people like me who are educated, who are new to the workforce, who would be ready to enter the housing market, ready to invest in small business, ready to take lower-paying jobs like teaching, but can't because we're burdened with an excess of student loans. (Applause).
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