Sir, Having visited numerous universities over the past two years I found your article “Tuition fees face teaching standards link” (May 16) thought-provoking. The article informs us that universities ...
Did you catch the clever little ambiguity in my title? First, I might be asking if every time a professor lectures it's unethical. Of course, the answer is no. Some lectures are wonderful. They're ...
Is there really a war on lecturing going on across higher ed? Do learning professionals want to kill the lecture? The anti-lecture cadre is characterized as comparing the traditional lecture to ...
If you think lectures are ineffective, you're not alone. A new study suggests that there are more effective methods of education. A significantly greater number of students fail science, engineering ...
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 ...
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 ...
Many parents feel pressure to constantly guide, correct, and instruct their children. Advice, rules, and lectures often seem like the most direct way to teach right from wrong. While structure ...
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 ...
Did you catch the clever little ambiguity in my title? First, I might be asking if every time a professor lectures it's unethical. Of course, the answer is no. Some lectures are wonderful. They're ...