![]() ![]() Most importantly, the ideas that you and your peers collectively generate stick. The time goes by faster than you want it to students are more engaged than in any traditional classroom I’ve ever been a part of. ![]() Your brain is actively processing what your peers are saying while you try to come to your own conclusions so that you can contribute during the entire eighty-minute session. I can tell you from personal experience that despite there being eighty students in the room, you cannot zone out. Professors are there to facilitate the discussion, not to dominate it. Students read a ten-to twenty-page description of a particular company’s or person’s circumstance-called a “case”-on their own time and then participate in a discussion/debate in class (where attendance is mandatory). There are no lectures there, not even in subjects like accounting or finance. Harvard Business School took this to the extreme by pioneering case-based learning more than a hundred years ago, and many business schools have since followed suit. ![]() Students read course material ahead of time and have a discussion in class. “Many college courses in the humanities focus on discussion over lecture. ![]()
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