CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Philip Zelikow packs a lot into his modern world history course, roaming in a given week from the Napoleonic wars to Latin American revolutions to India circa 1800. But the ...

Why? Setting the agenda for the class meeting will reinforce to students what topics will be covered, while also demonstrating how prepared you are as an instructor, and can also help establish your ...

David Quinn explains how strategies that work in person to facilitate active participation and peer support among students can be adapted to large online lectures The term “traditional lecture” ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — A video clip has gone viral on social media after a San Diego State University professor made some controversial comments during a lecture that some viewed as racist. The 50-second clip ...

On a Thursday afternoon in February, I watched my students at the whiteboard. Gaby was drawing a series of cartoons and a list of the kinds of animals that had been sent into space by different ...

A free, massively open online course (MOOC) on Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life will begin Monday, April 28, and will include what may become the world’s largest memory ...

For three decades, UC Berkeley professor Alex Filippenko has taught his popular Introduction to General Astronomy class to up to 730 students in Wheeler Hall. While lecturing, he spins donuts on a ...