Calls for active learning have been persuasive, but for many faculty members, abandoning lecture feels unrealistic, even ...
[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 ...
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 ...
Traditionally, undergraduate education has been predominately lecture-based. With the shift to student-centered learning, many educators have had to determine the best method to provide students with ...
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 month the University of Adelaide has boldly declared that it is phasing out lectures. Replacing them will be “flipped” classrooms, where students are expected to do pre-work before they come to ...