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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
5 Tips: Learn more effectively in class with Mastery Learning - Coursera
Want to learn a few tips on how to learn the material in your classes more effectively? Read below to learn about the principles behind Mastery Learning, written by our Course Operations MOOC Pedagogy Specialist, Relly Brandman.
What is Mastery Learning?
“The instruction is the same as in the conventional class (usually with the same teacher)…The average student under mastery learning was about one standard deviation above the average of the control class (the average mastery learning student was above 84% of the students in the control class).1”
http://blog.coursera.org/post/50352075945/5-tips-learn-more-effectively-in-class-with-mastery