I believe you do sacrifice some content. So you’ve got to pick more carefully what you put into a course. I think you’ve got to structure it a little bit in smaller bites. You have to think a lot about what your real objective is. I’ve sort of always done that, but I think some people don’t. They sort of just say, “This is what I want to talk about,” and they just talk about it, and they don’t have a clear idea of what they want their students to be able to do at the end of that period or lecture. So if you have that idea, I think that [using] cooperative learning is pretty easy. I’ve done workshops, and one of the things I tell people is how to get started. If you have some material and you present an example . . . just stop there and let them do the second example. . . . And then after you start doing that for a little bit, you start getting some insight into some other kinds of things that you can do.

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