对分课堂：大学课堂教学模式的一个新探索

o address recent teaching quality reduction in higher education institutions in China, a new model for classroom teaching is proposed, referred to as the PAD (presentation-assimilation-discussion) class. The key idea of this model is to allocate half of the class time for teacher's presentation and the other half for students' interactive learning primarily in the form of discussion. The presentation and discussion stage is separated in time so that students can have time for individualized internal assimilation in between. Testing the new model in two classes, one undergraduate class and one graduate class, indicates that the PAD class enhances students' active learning producing good learning effects. Compared with flipped classroom and MOOC, the PAD class is argued has some unique strengths and should be further experimented.