Students Plus! Handling Large Classes Extended Abstract

What might you do when you encounter a class that is much larger than you are used too? What do you do to cope? How do you promote discussion when you have too many students? How do you manage writing projects? You might search for suggestions of how to handle the mechanics of the larger class: how to monitor what is happening in the classroom (red cards, ombudspeople, one minute message), how to mark the larger number of assignments, how to look after the mechanics of presenting the lecture or of distributing marked assignments. A preferred option is to use the larger class as a context to reconsider how to facilitate learning.