Do you feel guilty when you lecture? Perhaps you’re afraid that you’re shortchanging students. That, instead, you should be flipping your classroom and getting “active” through group exercises. But ...
In his nearly two decades of teaching biology at the California Institute of Technology, one of the challenges that Bruce Hay has struggled with over the years is how to encourage student ...
Recently, Stephen Kosslyn, the founding Dean of Minerva Schools, offered a great explanation of why active learning is superior to lectures. While I admire and appreciate radical innovations in ...
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 ...
Hi, my name is Kim Epting, and I am a FWL (Faculty Who Lectures ™). In this essay, I’ll explore what I’ve learned about making lectures as effective as possible. But first, I want to say I’ve found ...