I’ve been following, with something like exasperation, the discussion over Harvard University’s new study on teaching. Not surprisingly, the study found that physics students performed better on ...

All lectures can be attended virtually via Zoom; students use the chat function to submit questions. All lectures are recorded and available for students to watch upon request (instructions on viewing ...

Research in higher education shows that all students benefit from being able to listen to lectures more than once, whether they were live originally or not. When a recording is available to a student ...

Lecture-based learning can be challenging for students who have difficulties building mental models for the organization of new information, but providing them with diagrams and other supporting ...

Large lecture courses are a staple in many disciplines, varying in size from 40 students up to 400+. They are often viewed as an effective and economical way to guide students through foundational ...

More than 90 percent of Fredonia students said they preferred “traditional lectures with computer-based learning as a supplement for revising” their notes. Moloney said reassuring instructors that ...

Classroom lectures can be long, boring and ineffective, and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan says they have no place in the education. He points to research that shows that most students get bored and ...

Sitting in lecture is like being in one of those typist rooms that used to occupy the basement of every office building. As each class begins, 100 med students race to capture every word muttered, and ...

HOPEWELL — The Historic Hopewell Foundation's Lunch & Learn Lecture Series topic this week may haunt you. Local reporter and podcaster Chaiyatath "Chai" Gallahun, a U.S. Air Force veteran, will share ...

When the University of Vermont’s medical school opens for the year in the summer of 2019, it will miss something that all but one of its peer institutions have: lectures. The Larner College of ...

Of the students who attend your taught classes, how many of them do you think are bored academically? 5 per cent? 12 per cent? Research by the publisher Wiley found that 55 per cent of undergraduates ...