Both classes were held in a theater-style room with fixed seats. For one week, the control group was taught in the traditional lecture style by a well-rated, experienced instructor.

In class, their peers and the teacher are right there to help, and sharing work from a whole table is less intimidating than going up to the blackboard of a lecture hall solo to do a problem.

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, ...

In a typical traditional classroom, students listen to lectures in class and perform other learning activities, such as solving practice problems after class.

After he’s done recording, Garver edits the lectures into shorter mini-lectures, ranging from 5 to 29 minutes. Then he posts the lectures to Central Michigan’s iTunes U site, along with accompanying ...

At home, before class, students watched brief lecture modules, which introduced them to the day’s content. They also read a textbook — the same, introductory-level book as in 2011 — before ...

During a recent morning lecture in Colorado’s General Chemistry 1131, Professor Robert Parson spoke for a few minutes, then posed a multiple-choice question to the class of about 250.

Most lecture classes come with certain assumptions: a sea of students, a sea of laptops, the ability to get behind in the readings without dire consequences. But if only 12 people sign up for the ...

In some lecture classes, he is replacing a few high-stakes exams with biweekly in-class quizzes. The hope is that more frequent evaluation will lower stress levels and diminish self-doubt. He is also ...

Its appeal lies in that it is a simple, straightforward way to explain a concept to many people at once. And yet, lectures fail. Our brains can’t remember everything taught during an hour-long class.