On Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 a.m., an ECON 103: Macroeconomic Principles lecture is held in Foellinger Auditorium, a lecture hall that can seat over 1,300 people. Despite the large seating capacity, ...

When video recordings of Ravi Janardan’s computer-science course at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities first went online, the students loved it. Instead of dragging themselves out of bed for the ...

Editor’s Note: Due to safety concerns, this piece has been made anonymous. The format for classes during COVID has been somewhat of a hit-or-miss situation. Having to stare at your professor through a ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Philip Zelikow packs a lot into his modern world history course, roaming in a given week from the Napoleonic wars to Latin American revolutions to India circa 1800. But the ...

As part of a yearlong series, a research group within the School of Information hosted a panel discussion called Perspectives on Online Courses from the Trenches to inform students about their ...

Why? Setting the agenda for the class meeting will reinforce to students what topics will be covered, while also demonstrating how prepared you are as an instructor, and can also help establish your ...

This year, more university students and professors will encounter a trend that has come to be known as "flipping the classroom." It's been largely associated with massive open online courses (MOOCs), ...

As more colleges use ‘coursecasting,’ professors are split on its place in teaching Take your typical college student — bright, curious, but probably a bit sleep-deprived and short on attention span.

Gabriela C. Weaver doesn’t lecture to her general chemistry students—at least not in class. She records short lecture snippets that the students watch online before showing up. During the class period ...