SCALE-UP

[1] The spaces are carefully designed to facilitate interactions between teams of students who work on short, interesting tasks revolving around specific content.

[2]Originally developed in 1997 by Robert Beichner at North Carolina State University to help with large enrollment physic courses.

'[4] Although originated at North Carolina State University, more than five hundred colleges across the US and around the world are known to have directly adopted the SCALE-UP model and adapted it to their particular needs.

The original design called for 11 round tables of nine students, but many schools have smaller classes while a few have even larger ones.

[1] In a high-tech classroom there are individual computers that can be plugged into mounted monitors that can show the table or the whole class.