Book Review: Teaching the Large College Class

Author: Frank Heppner Publisher: Jossey-Bass, an Imprint of Wiley Book Review by: Sonu Chandiram When the first edition of this book was published in 2007, the author Frank Heppner had already logged 38 years of experience teaching large college classes. He had completed more than 40 years of work as a professor when he retired in 2010. What are large college classes? Typically they are introductory courses with around 1,000 students or so conducted in auditoriums or lecture halls that most freshmen have to take before they get into courses relating to their major. Frank Heppner writes that in...

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