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 ...

What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...

Last fall, about a month into his first semester of teaching, a graduate-student instructor I mentor came to see me in my office. Before the semester began, he had participated in an intensive ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Lecturing is often pitted against what is commonly called active learning, an umbrella category that ...

[Today’s students] are pushing lecture capture, not as a tool to replace class, but as a tool to review it and get even more out of it. Jimmy Lieu, University of Pennsylvania One of the most ...

This is my daughter, to me, every week, on the day she has science class. She is eight. She already hates science. This is also new. When did she start hating science? “The science teacher won’t stop ...

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Professor, Dean of Law School, The University of Western Australia In 2017, a business lecturer posted a photo on LinkedIn showing a completely empty university classroom, 15 minutes after the class ...