When video recordings of Ravi Janardan’s computer-science course at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities first went online, the students loved it. Instead of dragging themselves out of bed for the ...

When Martha Alibali, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, first used lecture-capture technology last spring, she worried that her efforts might suppress in-person ...

Susan Kramer watched her packed 10th grade biology class weave through rows of desks, pretending to be proteins and picking up plastic-bead “carbohydrates” and goofy “phosphate” hats as they navigated ...

Research in higher education shows that all students benefit from being able to listen to lectures more than once, whether they were live originally or not. When a recording is available to a student ...

When people think of accessibility and assistive technologies, the images conjured up most often are of disabilities like blindness or deafness or colorblindness. Wheelchair users, amputees, and ...

From laptops in class to Googleing papers, technological innovations have sparked debates over whether these advancements help students to achieve or foster a new sense of laziness. The newest form of ...

You have /3 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Lecturing is often pitted against what is commonly called active learning, an umbrella category that ...

Instead of me, my students generated their own flipped classroom lectures for the financial spreadsheet courses. Students producing their videos required a new set of thinking for both the teacher and ...

A few years ago, a high-ranking college administrator announced at our convocation: “The lecture is dead!” And then proceeded to give us a long-winded lecture on its demise. For those unfamiliar with ...

When planning each quarter at UC Santa Barbara, the process of scheduling undergraduate courses begins months in advance. With the help of applications such as Astra Schedule, each class is organized ...

Since September 2014, I have produced numerous flipped classroom lectures for accounting and financial spreadsheet courses in my flipped classroom. Five semesters later – during the spring semester in ...