Is a university lecture better viewed live or recorded? Will attendance drop off because students can listen to lectures after the fact? These are concerns that teachers have now that many lectures ...

A freshman seminar encourages students to behave differently in the world and feel more passionately about biodiversity.

I’ve been following, with something like exasperation, the discussion over Harvard University’s new study on teaching. Not surprisingly, the study found that physics students performed better on ...

The scene is indelibly imprinted on anyone who's been to college: row after row of students gazing down as a professor or a TA drones on about chemical bonds or the Byzantine Empire. The long lectures ...

Those who have watched recorded video lectures for an academic class know how much precious studying time those videos can take up — time that seems to drag on even more if the speaker talks slowly or ...

Nicholas Presnell has two professors for linear algebra: one official and one virtual. The first is at Arizona State University, where Mr. Presnell is a part-time graduate student in electrical ...

Author Chigozie Obioma is fascinated by how people can act on opposite ends of the spectrum of human behavior. At a Thursday talk hosted through the Literary Arts Department’s “Writers on Writing” ...

My preferred solution is for the University to abolish lectures, and for professors to instead publish their notes and hold ...