Last fall, about a month into his first semester of teaching, a graduate-student instructor I mentor came to see me in my office. Before the semester began, he had participated in an intensive ...

You have /5 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 ...

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A lot of my posts here are about alternatives to the traditional lecture-oriented classroom. Based on that, and on Notice that what I don’t include in this list is the one thing that lectures seem ...

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Of the students who attend your taught classes, how many of them do you think are bored academically? 5 per cent? 12 per cent? Research by the publisher Wiley found that 55 per cent of undergraduates ...