Knowing your students in large diverse classes: A phenomenographic case study

Higher Education

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 747-760

  Woollacott, Laurie ^a   Booth, Shirley ^b   Cameron, Ann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Engineering education; Large class teaching; Learning practices; Phenomenography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902529382     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-013-9664-2     Document Type: Article

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