A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering and math courses that are taught lecture-style than fail in classes incorporating so-called active learning that expects them to ...

In an essay adapted from her forthcoming book, What Ever Happened to the Faculty?: Drift and Decision in Higher Education, Mary Burgan, a former general secretary of the American Association of ...

Raise your hand if you’ve had the following experience. You spend a week lecturing students on course content, and their nodding heads and furious note-taking throughout suggest that they are tracking ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Lecturing is often pitted against what is commonly called active learning, an umbrella category that ...

Lecturing has long been a central mode of instruction in higher education, but it’s also become a battleground for debates about effectiveness. In faculty workshops and pedagogical guides, we often ...

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 ...

On college campuses right now, the talk is all about antiracism, equity and inclusion. These are good conversations, and long overdue. But to actually achieve these goals, one of the most effective ...

Flipped instruction, as I define it, isn’t about teachers videotaping lectures for students to watch before class. It’s about less lecturing, and more active learning. It’s about giving students ...