This guide combines theory on teaching methodology with advice on good teaching practice in order to help teachers face the challenge of larger numbers of students in their classrooms. It includes a number of case studies which explore innovative teaching methods.

Part 1 Theoretical issues: the experience of teaching and learning in large classes; chaos and loneliness or organization and communication; mechanization or autonomy. Part 2 Case studies: active learning in structured lectures; teaching introductory law the workbook way; guided reading in biology - a modified Keller system; teaching mathematics - problems and varied solutions; rationalizing laboratory practicals; teaching introductory physics; group project-based field courses; home and work study networks in business studies; course teams - a portfolio of strategies. Part 3 Institutional support for change: improving teaching and learning in large classes.