; More Effective Teaching Is Goal.

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The University of Missouri plans to redesign a popular undergraduate course as part of a new statewide plan to make large lecture classes more efficient while improving student performance.

The UM System is leading the initiative, which is funded with a $250,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Next Generation Learning Challenges funds will pay for a consultant to work with all 13 public four-year universities in the state to each redesign a specific course. Under the proposed process, each university would test that class on its own campus before sharing ideas and results with one another.

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; More Effective Teaching Is Goal.

"Instead of 27 instructors coming up with their own ways of teaching algebra, there could be one master course," said Chris Weisb...

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