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Technology-enhanced active learning, or TEAL, is an alternative method of teaching that MIT pioneered.[1] Led by Professor John Belcher,[2] the TEAL approach showed that it was possible to challenge the passive or recitation style[3] of teaching, common in large classes and re-enforced by lecture halls architecture. Despite having excellent math results, many first-year students had not transitioned across to the way lecturers teach and 40% of students dropped out of first year physics education at MIT.[4] The TEAL approach set out to assist students to "visualize, develop better intuition about, and conceptual models" of scientific concepts.[5]