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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What will become of the lecture? Video camera via Vereshchagin Dmitry/www.shutterstock.com Yet lobbing new resources into complex settings deserves caution. Our universities are rich human ecosystems ...

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 ...

Lecture capture technology has advanced to a point where implementing a solution can be disarmingly simple. But it's important for faculty and administrators not to be lulled into a false sense of ...

My least favorite part of every semester, without a doubt, has to be scheduling classes. Nothing frustrates me like watching the numbers go down as I fight for the few remaining spots in classes I ...

Did you catch the clever little ambiguity in my title? First, I might be asking if every time a professor lectures it's unethical. Of course, the answer is no. Some lectures are wonderful. They're ...