If you are like most high school students across America, you probably take your classes with 20 to 30 other students, and each course's curriculum is typically delivered seminar-style. This is in ...

On Mondays and Wednesdays at 9 a.m., an ECON 103: Macroeconomic Principles lecture is held in Foellinger Auditorium, a lecture hall that can seat over 1,300 people. Despite the large seating capacity, ...

Why? Setting the agenda for the class meeting will reinforce to students what topics will be covered, while also demonstrating how prepared you are as an instructor, and can also help establish your ...

This past quarter, students and faculty alike noticed that lectures were constantly interrupted by a cacophony of coughing from students. In previous years, such coughing could be written off as the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Pass-fail assessment is the norm in preclerkship courses. These tips can help medical students optimize their learning and ...