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Sunday, March 24, 2024

Eric Mazur, academic dean at Harvard: ‘Failure is essential and grades stigmatize it’

Thirty years ago, Eric Mazur (Amsterdam, 1954) decided to stop giving lectures in class and instead introduced Peer Instruction, through which his students learn about a topic by debating in a group.

ORIGINAL LINK: https://english.elpais.com/education/2024-03-23/eric-mazur-academic-dean-at-harvard-failure-is-essential-and-grades-stigmatize-it.html