A few years ago, a high-ranking college administrator announced at our convocation: “The lecture is dead!” And then proceeded to give us a long-winded lecture on its demise. For those unfamiliar with ...

When people think of accessibility and assistive technologies, the images conjured up most often are of disabilities like blindness or deafness or colorblindness. Wheelchair users, amputees, and ...

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), ...

Julie Smith is vice president of CDW•G Higher Education Sales. A new model of teaching has begun to push aside the traditional "sage on the stage" model, in which an educator stands at the front of ...

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 ...

A slacker student’s dream is becoming a reality at several universities across the country. At Purdue, American and Duke universities, professors are using iPods to record and broadcast their lectures ...

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 ...

Skip this paragraph if at any point it sounds familiar. A stereotypical American college student — let’s call him Michael Normalperson — goes to a college lecture class. He is bored. The time he doesn ...

With the continuing influx of international students into the United States, pedagogical practices have become more diverse and enriched by the educational traditions those students bring to the ...

The lecture hall is under attack. Science, math and engineering departments at many universities are abandoning or retooling the lecture as a style of teaching, worried that it’s driving students away ...