A delicate balance: integrating active learning into a large lecture course.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  CBE - Life Sciences Education

• Publication date

  2008-12-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Computer Science, Education

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  DOI 10.1187/cbe.08-02-0004PMID 19047423PMCID PMC2592041
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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