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 ...

This session covers methods of effectively using and creating lectures for synchronous and asynchronous online courses. Participants will be given items and processes to use to help their own unique ...