Overview: At times information must be transmitted orally to a passive listening audience. But research has shown that after 10 to 20 minutes of continuous lecture, assimilation falls off rapidly. If ...

Manu Kapur explains how using a flipped-classroom approach, setting students problems that they are unable to tackle properly until they have been taught the associated concepts, deepens their ...

University students recall their experience as student teachers in Champaign-Urbana, and how these experiences are professionally and personally enriching.

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 ...

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

With some universities returning to face-to-face teaching this year, ANU Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt noted that, while his university was one of them, lectures would be much less common and not a ...

The idea has met with uproar from Manchester students, but if it results in more teaching hours, all the better Lectures are rubbish education. They should have gone out when printing was invented and ...