I can tell you from personal experience that despite there being eighty students in the room, you cannot zone out. Professors are there to facilitate the discussion, not to dominate it. ![]() ![]() Students read a ten-to twenty-page description of a particular company’s or person’s circumstance-called a “case”-on their own time and then participate in a discussion/debate in class (where attendance is mandatory). There are no lectures there, not even in subjects like accounting or finance. Harvard Business School took this to the extreme by pioneering case-based learning more than a hundred years ago, and many business schools have since followed suit. Students read course material ahead of time and have a discussion in class. ![]() “Many college courses in the humanities focus on discussion over lecture.
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