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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In graduate school, I specialized in 19th-century American literature, expecting that, as a faculty member, I would probably teach a survey course and seminars in autobiography, romanticism, the ...

Effective learning takes much less time if you “study smart.” To “study smart,” you need to approach learning in a deliberate way. To study smart, think about the strategies and tactics you need to be ...

Lecture capture provides a means to record lectures, either in full or in part. The Kaltura lecture capture service records audio, presentation slides (any material displayed on your computer ...

From "cancel culture" to the threat of nuclear war, the 2022 BBC Reith Lectures analyze the state of freedom around the world. The Reiths are the BBC's flagship lecture series, and usually feature one ...

For three decades, UC Berkeley professor Alex Filippenko has taught his popular Introduction to General Astronomy class to up to 730 students in Wheeler Hall. While lecturing, he spins donuts on a ...

[Lecturing is the] best way to get information from teacher's notebook to student's notebook without touching the student's mind. -- George Leonard Of Gary Larsen's delightfully deranged "Far Side" ...