After more than a quarter century of teaching, a popular U of I professor is giving his last lecture to a crowd of people he ...
Is a university lecture better viewed live or recorded? Will attendance drop off because students can listen to lectures after the fact? These are concerns that teachers have now that many lectures ...
My course evaluations are in. They are mostly encouraging — except for the ones that say I should lecture more. “Lessen the amount of reading per week and just lecture more,” reads one comment.
But today, most lectures feel like obligations. For professors, they are a box to check between research deadlines and ...
Seven in 10 said they were “comfortable” with lecture capture. Lecture capture technology, according to a recent survey, doesn’t let overachieving students strut their stuff in the classroom, and they ...
Adi Mayan, a sophomore majoring in business at the City University of New York’s Bernard M. Baruch College, attends lectures in her macroeconomics class and later goes online to watch them again, ...
“But in college, a lot of the learning happens in lecture halls, with professors talking behind a lectern and students taking notes. We need to prepare our students for that reality.” As I’ve ...
The scene is indelibly imprinted on anyone who's been to college: row after row of students gazing down as a professor or a TA drones on about chemical bonds or the Byzantine Empire. The long lectures ...
If college professors spent less time lecturing, would their students do better? A three-year study examining student performance in a “flipped classroom” — a class in which students watch short ...
Several students walked out of an anthropology lecture Tuesday afternoon when a professor allegedly asked a question in which he used the word “n****r,” according to several students in the class.
Classroom lectures can be long, boring and ineffective, and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan says they have no place in the education. He points to research that shows that most students get bored and ...