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PRINCETON BOROUGH — Every Wednesday morning at Princeton University, 54 students take their seats in professor Jeremy Adelman's introductory history course, as students have for years. But this year ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As sophomore Nathan Beckman sat outside Room 224 of the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, he marked time by watching videos on his phone before Biology 230 dismissed and his ...

Every lecture period in an introductory crop science course was interrupted with a 5 minute exercise about half way through the class period. Each exercise asked questions about topics covered in ...

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), ...

Students perform less well in end-of-term exams if they are allowed access to an electronic device, such as a phone or tablet, for non-academic purposes in lectures, a new study. Students perform less ...

When John DeAngelo joined the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in 2011, a university-wide committee gave him one of his marching orders: Buy, install, and manage a lecture capture system.

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 ...

Are Science Lecture Classes Sexist? Both men and women complain that it's harder to get A's in college science and math classes than in, say, sociology and history. And they're right. But it turns out ...