The founder of Khan Academy, Sal Khan, argued in a recent TED talk for an idea called the “flipped classroom.” Now that videos of lectures can be placed online, he said, students should be assigned to ...
Education isn't just about conveying information as efficiently as possible. A lecture, done right, gets to the heart of why a lesson is worth learning. The nation's 80,000 medical, 20,000 dental, and ...
Simon Fraser University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Simon Fraser University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. The COVID-19 closure of university and ...
This is the second article in a two-part series examining teaching techniques in college-level physics courses. The first part, which was printed in yesterday's paper, examined some of the bold leaps ...
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 ...
When Martha Alibali, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, first used lecture-capture technology last spring, she worried that her efforts might suppress in-person ...
University of Nottingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Yet lobbing new resources into complex settings deserves caution. Our universities are rich human ecosystems and ...