Calls for active learning have been persuasive, but for many faculty members, abandoning lecture feels unrealistic, even ...

The crises facing university education is not just located in the continued cash crunch plaguing them, neither is it confined to the unplanned universities expansion, or the persistent tribalisation ...

The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. "Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down," says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

Poster presentation: View a poster (PDF) describing this project from the 2012 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Description: This project studies the combined effect of a lecture method and ...

COVID-19 restrictions required universities to move their classes online. It was a tremendous – although difficult – learning experience for all involved in this shift. As restrictions have been ...

Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a new study. Interactive teaching methods significantly ...

The relative effectiveness of e-learning versus lecture learning was examined in the context of vocational training. Twenty-four trainers and VDPs undertook an e-learning module on clinical governance ...

The academic year at LSE is made up of the Autumn, Winter and Spring terms. Most taught master's programmes span a full calendar year (September - September), though a few are only nine or ten months ...

If we introduce flipped classes in Nepal, it could be effective. Students can watch videos as often as they wish or until they understand the concept. They do not have to do any homework but ...

No more 75-minute lectures? The University of New Orleans plans to explore that question and other teaching methods at its newest faculty resource center. The Center for Teaching Innovation opened ...