When Joan Lyon was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2023 she set out to share her experience while she still could.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the biggest studies of its kind to date has concluded that although the introduction of lecture capture does lead to reduced class attendance, academics must accept that students see it as a ...

Lecture-based learning can be challenging for students who have difficulties building mental models for the organization of new information, but providing them with diagrams and other supporting ...

A university professor has found a way to help students -- and himself -- power through long lecture classes: exercise breaks. A new study showed that five-minute exercise sessions during lectures ...

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.

(KRON) — A professor who was booted from Stanford University after freshmen students complained about his lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict filed a defamation and retaliation lawsuit in ...

Several students walked out of an anthropology lecture Tuesday afternoon when a professor allegedly asked a question in which he used the word “n****r,” according to several students in the class.

When Savannah Neibart ’26 entered her probability class on the morning of Sept. 6, she had not calculated the odds of a lecture-hall evacuation. Yet, at approximately 9:55 a.m., 15 minutes before the ...