When video recordings of Ravi Janardan’s computer-science course at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities first went online, the students loved it. Instead of dragging themselves out of bed for the ...

If college professors spent less time lecturing, would their students do better? A three-year study examining student performance in a “flipped classroom” — a class in which students watch short ...

This year, more university students and professors will encounter a trend that has come to be known as "flipping the classroom." It's been largely associated with massive open online courses (MOOCs), ...

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 ...

I shall say this without shame: I lecture in my courses. Yes, I know, in every discussion of “flipped classes” we are reminded that lecturing as a means of transferring basic factual information is a ...

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 ...

During my freshman year at the University of Michigan, I had the displeasure of taking Math 105. Like all intro-level math courses at the University, this class is taught using a “flipped classroom” ...