I’ve been following, with something like exasperation, the discussion over Harvard University’s new study on teaching. Not surprisingly, the study found that physics students performed better on ...

Is a university lecture better viewed live or recorded? Will attendance drop off because students can listen to lectures after the fact? These are concerns that teachers have now that many lectures ...

It's a typical scene: a few minutes before 11:00 on a Tuesday morning and about 200 sleepy-looking college students are taking their seats in a large lecture hall - chatting, laughing, calling out to ...

Classroom lectures can be long, boring and ineffective, and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan says they have no place in the education. He points to research that shows that most students get bored and ...

“But in college, a lot of the learning happens in lecture halls, with professors talking behind a lectern and students taking notes. We need to prepare our students for that reality.” As I’ve ...

Student stopped uploading lectures he recorded as a favor for a college classmate. It didn’t end well. You help people once, ...

Those who have watched recorded video lectures for an academic class know how much precious studying time those videos can take up — time that seems to drag on even more if the speaker talks slowly or ...

Nicholas Presnell has two professors for linear algebra: one official and one virtual. The first is at Arizona State University, where Mr. Presnell is a part-time graduate student in electrical ...

Professor Takaaki Kajita, recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics, delivered a public lecture on gravitational waves at ...

Lecture halls may be ubiquitous at USC and at any other college campus, but a large body of research, including a study conducted by professors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has ...

When Katherine Gnadinger recalls all the classes she’s taken in four years at Texas A&M University, one course stands above the rest: a business law class, taught in the form of a 400-person lecture.