For three decades, UC Berkeley professor Alex Filippenko has taught his popular Introduction to General Astronomy class to up to 730 students in Wheeler Hall. While lecturing, he spins donuts on a ...

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 ...

As more colleges use ‘coursecasting,’ professors are split on its place in teaching Take your typical college student — bright, curious, but probably a bit sleep-deprived and short on attention span.

Research suggests the key is to make lectures more personal, experiential, engaging and interactive.

Skillshare, meanwhile, is eliminating the lectures–and the professors. A new class format the startup is launching on Tuesday aims to create a learning environment where teachers become facilitators ...

This fall, students enrolled in CS50, Harvard’s behemoth introductory Computer Science course, will only be asked to attend two lectures in person. The new policy, one of a host of changes announced ...

“Camera shy” is not the first phrase that comes to my mind for Siva Vaidhyanathan. The University of Virginia faculty member commands healthy fees for his lively presentations on media studies and law ...

Sand Pine Elementary School student Luke O’Brien works on a math review in Stephanie Sheridan’s fourth-grade class Wednesday. Sheridan uses a “flipped classroom” model that presents material and ...

In the video "The Electric Pickup Truck War Is Here," Bloomberg describes the dilemma that large automakers face. Pickup trucks are the products that keep Ford, GM and, to a lesser extent, Fiat ...

Personal narrative plays an important role in Mike Garver’s teaching style. Garver, a professor of marketing at Central Michigan University, often uses anecdotes from his own life in his lectures, ...