Extract from: TOMORROW'S PROFESSOR(SM) LISTSERV
Tomorrow's Teaching and Learning
IS TECHNOLOGY A FRIEND OR FOE OF LEARNING?
Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent North Carolina State University

Fred goes to his 8 a.m. heat and mass transfer class,

• drops his homework on the front desk,
• takes his seat, yawns, and wonders if he'll be able to stay awake until 9:15.
  
  Professor Maxwell greets the class and asks the students if they have any questions. One of them asks about a homework problem and she goes through the solution on the board. She then draws a block diagram of a heat exchanger and writes the energy balance and heat transfer equations. When she finishes writing the last equation she asks the class how they would determine the film coefficients in the expression for the overall heat transfer coefficient.
• Fred vaguely recalls something about correlations from the last lecture but doesn't feel inclined to say anything.
  
  When no one volunteers a response the professor reminds the class about the correlations and writes the equation for one of them on the board, and then completes the calculations. She asks again if any of the students have questions, and they don't. She then notes that different correlations must be used for laminar flow, and she writes an expression for one of them. While she is writing
• Fred glances at his watch, sees that it is 9:13, and closes his notebook. The instant she finishes he wakes his neighbor and
• heads for the door with the rest of the class.

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