Over the last year, I have noticed that one of the most frequent questions in Center for Teaching & Learning workshops is, “How would you adapt this practice for use in a large class?” The suggestions ...

“The reality of education is that people learn from people they love,” says New York Times columnist David Brooks in a recent National Public Radio interview discussing his new book, The Social Animal ...

Large lecture courses are a staple in many disciplines, varying in size from 40 students up to 400+. They are often viewed as an effective and economical way to guide students through foundational ...

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 ...

Want a class that functions smoothly and productively? Forget the carrots and sticks; make sure that each student has appropriately challenging work instead. When I trained to become a teacher, I ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. You’ve heard about the revolution in STEM teaching? About how professors are retooling their ...

When I first started teaching, the open space of a 50- or 75-minute class period seemed an eternity. Like many a new faculty member, I worried about having enough material. I wanted to ensure that, if ...

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 ...

The lecture hall is under attack. Science, math and engineering departments at many universities are abandoning or retooling the lecture as a style of teaching, worried that it’s driving students away ...

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 ...