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The Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, has been faced with an extremely fast growth rate in the number of first year undergraduates. The number of first year students has grown from one hundred in 1984, to seven hundred in 1992. Taking into account the austerity budgets with which Dutch universities are forced to work, the consequences for the first year curriculum have been enormous. Small scale education has become difficult to maintain and has increasingly been replaced by large scale lecture courses which, in fact, have become the norm in freshman teaching.
The authors would like to thank Drs. C.H.J. van Veen and Mrs. Drs. C.E.A. Meursing-Sligting for their active contribution in developing BV and Dr. P.S. Jeffcutt for his reflective suggestions.
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Huijsman, Z.C., Letiche, H.K. (1995). Student Directed Learning: A Business Challenge For Freshmen. In: Gijselaers, W.H., Tempelaar, D.T., Keizer, P.K., Blommaert, J.M., Bernard, E.M., Kasper, H. (eds) Educational Innovation in Economics and Business Administration. Educational Innovation in Economics and Business, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8545-3_28
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