It’s the first day of the new semester, and I’m heading into my art history class in Thompson Hall, just about five minutes before the lecture is scheduled to begin. Upon entering the classroom, it is ...
College professors report less student participation in class, rooted in a fear of disagreement. A Marquette University ...
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 ...
Students learn more, attend class at higher rates and are more engaged in their education when teachers take a more interactive approach in the classroom, according to a new study. Researchers focused ...
This is the fifth episode of our new podcast series on the future of higher education. You can subscribe in iTunes to get prior and future episodes. This week we’re going back to school. Well, kind of ...
Are Science Lecture Classes Sexist? Both men and women complain that it's harder to get A's in college science and math classes than in, say, sociology and history. And they're right. But it turns out ...