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 ...

Teaching methods are the broader techniques used to help students achieve learning outcomes, while activities are the different ways of implementing these methods. Teaching methods help students: ...

THESE lectures formed part of a course on scientific method delivered at the University Extension summer meeting at Oxford last August. The discourses are intended to illustrate the forms taken by ...

Scott Freeman hopes his new study will do for evidence-based teaching methods what the surgeon general’s 1964 report did for research on smoking—shift the conversation. Freeman, a biology lecturer and ...

Skip this paragraph if at any point it sounds familiar. A stereotypical American college student — let’s call him Michael Normalperson — goes to a college lecture class. He is bored. The time he doesn ...

The present system of graduate instruction in literature and the humanities used in the German universities must command the attention of those who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the ...

The traditional days of note-taking, involving only a pen, notebook, and undivided attention, have evolved. Before the internet or personal computers were standard in classrooms, note-taking was ...