When video recordings of Ravi Janardan’s computer-science course at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities first went online, the students loved it. Instead of dragging themselves out of bed for the ...

When Martha Alibali, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, first used lecture-capture technology last spring, she worried that her efforts might suppress in-person ...

Research in higher education shows that all students benefit from being able to listen to lectures more than once, whether they were live originally or not. When a recording is available to a student ...

When people think of accessibility and assistive technologies, the images conjured up most often are of disabilities like blindness or deafness or colorblindness. Wheelchair users, amputees, and ...

From laptops in class to Googleing papers, technological innovations have sparked debates over whether these advancements help students to achieve or foster a new sense of laziness. The newest form of ...

You have /3 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 ...

Since September 2014, I have produced numerous flipped classroom lectures for accounting and financial spreadsheet courses in my flipped classroom. Five semesters later – during the spring semester in ...

A new study shows that, though students felt like they learned more from traditional lectures, they actually learned more when taking part in active learning classrooms. For decades, there has been ...

The future doctors of America cut class. Not to gossip in the bathroom or flirt behind the bleachers. They skip to learn — at twice the speed. Some medical students follow along with class remotely, ...

an empty lecture hall with a stack of books on the table Medical students are choosing to forego lectures to use the time studying for the Step 1 exam instead. Travel to any medical school, and you’ll ...