Calls for active learning have been persuasive, but for many faculty members, abandoning lecture feels unrealistic, even ...
The crises facing university education is not just located in the continued cash crunch plaguing them, neither is it confined to the unplanned universities expansion, or the persistent tribalisation ...
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 ...
The move to online education has required a major rethink of traditional teaching practices. Julianne Law offers insight on how she has adapted her ‘lectures’ for the digital classroom The sudden move ...
After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...
COVID-19 restrictions required universities to move their classes online. It was a tremendous – although difficult – learning experience for all involved in this shift. As restrictions have been ...
The academic year at LSE is made up of the Autumn, Winter and Spring terms. Most taught master's programmes span a full calendar year (September - September), though a few are only nine or ten months ...
If we introduce flipped classes in Nepal, it could be effective. Students can watch videos as often as they wish or until they understand the concept. They do not have to do any homework but ...
The relative effectiveness of e-learning versus lecture learning was examined in the context of vocational training. Twenty-four trainers and VDPs undertook an e-learning module on clinical governance ...
The video is going viral because it highlights a simple, powerful idea: learning becomes easier when teachers use creativity, ...