lecture

Ditching lectures for group work isn’t always the answer

A professor responds to a critique of traditional learning

Why I won’t flip my classroom

Prof. Pettigrew says proper lectures work just fine

Why traditional lectures will thrive

A defense against those who say lectures should be “social”

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When summer vacation goes AWOL

What happened to the last two months?

Goat accent

What should you do when you have a hard time understanding your professor?

College prof is Ontario’s Best Lecturer

Canadore theatre arts lecturer is first non-university winner

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YouTube launches higher ed page: YouTube EDU

Schools post lecture videos, intro classes and even full-semester courses online

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Waterloo’s smallest class: me

The joys of not sitting beside the Loud Whisperer

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Moving away from large lectures

At MIT, attendance is up and the failure rate down by 50 percent

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I need a nap

I was sitting in the middle of a chemistry lecture the first time it happened. One moment I was copying notes from the projector, the next I was suddenly staring at my sleeve. It took me a couple of seconds to realize that 15 minutes of class had vanished, and instead of writing notes about electron orbitals, I had been drooling into my armrest.