A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering and math courses that are taught lecture-style than fail in classes incorporating so-called active learning that expects them to ...

Raise your hand if you’ve had the following experience. You spend a week lecturing students on course content, and their nodding heads and furious note-taking throughout suggest that they are tracking ...

Lecturing has long been a central mode of instruction in higher education, but it’s also become a battleground for debates about effectiveness. In faculty workshops and pedagogical guides, we often ...

In an essay adapted from her forthcoming book, What Ever Happened to the Faculty?: Drift and Decision in Higher Education, Mary Burgan, a former general secretary of the American Association of ...

Walk into any lecture class at any high school or college, and you are likely to find a good number of students doing something other than listening to the teacher. Dozing, perhaps. Shopping online.