Conflating ‘interesting’ with ‘entertaining’ and getting caught in a never-ending loop of shinier and shinier edutainment should be shunned in favour of cultivating sustained interest How can we make ...

The unfortunate truth is, for most undergraduates, the majority of their time spent “learning” at Princeton is occupied by lectures. Last spring, I argued that professors should stop lecturing us; in ...

One day, our class began with spoons. As students filed into the lecture hall, the teaching assistants, offering no explanation, handed every fourth or fifth student some type of spoon. The spoons ...

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 ...

My preferred solution is for the University to abolish lectures, and for professors to instead publish their notes and hold ...

If you’re anything like me, you won’t realize just how many people are in those large lecture classes until you sit in Foellinger Auditorium for the first time. After that, you’ll quickly realize that ...

When asked about the impact of lecture capture technology on teaching and learning, James Craig, professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy at the University of Maryland Dental School ...

“Smart” decision-making will be the focus of an upcoming lecture at Rochester Institute of Technology. John Salerno, a fellow with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., will present ...