大学校园的讲座需要整修一番

短语讲解：

1. Students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom, according to a new study.

be engaged in忙于，从事于
例句：They are engaged in interior trade.
他们从事国内贸易。

2. Both classes were held in a theater-style room with fixed seats.

fixed seats 固定座位
例句：The 412 fixed seats were occupied; 
四百一十二个固定座位坐满了

3. Instead, students were divided into groups of two or three to discuss and answer a series of questions, projected on a large screen.

be divided into被分成
例句：This is divided into two parts.
这被分成两部分。

4. “There was a great deal of careful data collected showing how identical the two sections, these two large sections of the class were beforehand," Wieman says.

a great deal of 大量的
例句：A motorcar costs a great deal of money.
一部汽车值很多钱。

5. "And this focused very much on looking at exactly what could be learned with the different methods from the classroom experience, the time when you have the maximum student-instructor - or face to face - interaction time.”

face to face 面对面
例句：I sat face to face with her.
我和她面对面坐着。

6. “As an instructor you really have to be on your toes,” he says.

on one's toes警觉的; 准备行动的
例句：A policeman has to keep on his toes all the time he's on duty.
警察在执勤时必须时刻保持警觉。

7. Their brains are turned on.

turn on打开
例句：Please turn the light on for me; it's getting dark.
天要黑了, 请把灯给我打开。

8. Co-author Carl Wieman, on leave from his post as director of Science Education Initiatives at the University of British Columbia and the University of Colorado, says teaching methods need to change.

on leave休假
例句：He is on leave now.
他正在休假。

9. “That’s what this study shows is that there’s a lot better way to do things and faculty ought to be switching over.”

ought to应当,应该
例句：She ought to slim.
她应该减肥。
switch over变换, 转换
例句：The chairman decided to switch the factory over to bicycle production.
董事长决定使该厂改产自行车。

10. He’s hoping that many more colleges take up the initiative that can energize teaching and learning.

take up接受
例句：I'd like to take up your offer of a ride into town.
我愿接受你的邀请, 搭你的车进城。