Education isn't just about conveying information as efficiently as possible. A lecture, done right, gets to the heart of why a lesson is worth learning. The nation's 80,000 medical, 20,000 dental, and ...

Classroom lectures can be long, boring and ineffective, and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan says they have no place in the education. He points to research that shows that most students get bored and ...

You have /5 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 ...

What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...

Last fall, about a month into his first semester of teaching, a graduate-student instructor I mentor came to see me in my office. Before the semester began, he had participated in an intensive ...

Historians share surprising stories in the McCauley Lecture Series at the Washington County Free Library in downtown ...

NPR Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley will speak at the Michigan State University Kellogg Auditorium next Tuesday ...