Calls for active learning have been persuasive, but for many faculty members, abandoning lecture feels unrealistic, even ...
The crises facing university education is not just located in the continued cash crunch plaguing them, neither is it confined to the unplanned universities expansion, or the persistent tribalisation ...
After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...
The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. "Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down," says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the ...
Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a new study. Interactive teaching methods significantly ...
COVID-19 restrictions required universities to move their classes online. It was a tremendous – although difficult – learning experience for all involved in this shift. As restrictions have been ...
Technological breakthroughs have paved the way for educational innovations. The QR (quick response) code is one innovation that many individuals incorporate. Due to advances in technology and more ...
No more 75-minute lectures? The University of New Orleans plans to explore that question and other teaching methods at its newest faculty resource center. The Center for Teaching Innovation opened ...
The relative effectiveness of e-learning versus lecture learning was examined in the context of vocational training. Twenty-four trainers and VDPs undertook an e-learning module on clinical governance ...