Students in a lecture class can give the impression of lethargy: Maybe a student sleeps in the back of the classroom, maybe others fidget and doodle. The students who are paying attention may be too ...

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 ...

Three of Yale’s most esteemed historians will team up next fall to teach a course exploring the nature of American identity from 1776 to the present as part of the 2025 DeVane Lecture course, an ...

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 ...

Amor Towles’s award-winning novels have collectively sold more than eight million copies and have been translated into more than forty languages. Dr. David Hicks, director of the Maslow Family ...

Texas A&M professor Tatiana Erukhimova has become a viral sensation thanks to her energetic demonstrations of physics experiments as part of the university's outreach programs. She now boasts a larger ...

Ever since the first polymers were discovered, scientists have debated their structures. Before Hermann Staudinger published the brilliant concept of macromolecules, it was generally assumed that the ...

Do you feel guilty when you lecture? Perhaps you’re afraid that you’re shortchanging students. That, instead, you should be flipping your classroom and getting “active” through group exercises. But ...

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 ...