Last fall, about a month into his first semester of teaching, a graduate-student instructor I mentor came to see me in my office. Before the semester began, he had participated in an intensive ...

Andrew P. Martin loves it when his lectures break out in chaos. It happens frequently, when he asks the 80 students in his evolutionary-biology class at the University of Colorado at Boulder to work ...

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 ...

If we have one minute to explain to our grandchild what is really important to us, what would we talk about? That is what Paul Dayton, a professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the ...

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 ...

Monday’s IHE article about Open Source lecture capture tools offers yet another reminder about the link between instructional resources, instructional expectations (entitlements?), and the campus IT ...

The move to online teaching is a chance to redesign higher education delivery to reflect the way students learn in our digital age, replacing traditional lectures with more interactive material Until ...

Tip #8: The Lecture is Dead … But Long Live the Classroom! The traditional lecture, for millennia, has been the go-to method for teaching. Yet it is actually a terribly inefficient and ineffective way ...