Lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique, and now that information is everywhere some say it's a waste of time. Now, physicists have the data to prove it. But efforts to lose the ...

This pages outlines the methods of teaching, the types of assessment and examinations, lecture delivery and how this differs for research students.

However, large lectures have been increasingly criticized as ineffective for a variety of learners. For instance, students who arrive at college well-prepared are likely to find large lectures boring, ...

Keep the Socratic Teaching Method, But Change the Focus David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel professor of law and vice dean for global initiatives on the legal profession at Harvard Law School.

Method: One region's VDPs and trainers received e-learning; another's received a traditional one hour lecture. Retention and understanding were tested and compared.

That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models. Those who learned from active methods did significantly better across race, gender and major, according to ...

A study shows that college graduates felt that their time in college was very useful in their personal and intellectual ...

This can also be applied to in-person teaching. Students still find it challenging to remain focused during two-hour-long lectures when lecturers fail to engage them throughout.

Many students disengage during traditional lecture-based lessons, opting to self-study from the textbook. This has prompted me to rethink my approach to teaching and find more engaging, interactive ...

As many trainees have likely experienced, these clinical skills are not optimally taught through a lecture format or a passing demonstration. This blog post details three evidence-based methods for ...

A study of teaching methods for the first graduate course in social work research is reported in this paper. Three approaches involving different levels of student responsibility were compared in ...