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If college professors spent less time lecturing, would their students do better? A three-year study examining student performance in a “flipped classroom” — a class in which students watch short ...
PRINCETON BOROUGH — Every Wednesday morning at Princeton University, 54 students take their seats in professor Jeremy Adelman's introductory history course, as students have for years. But this year ...
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When John DeAngelo joined the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in 2011, a university-wide committee gave him one of his marching orders: Buy, install, and manage a lecture capture system.
This year, more university students and professors will encounter a trend that has come to be known as "flipping the classroom." It's been largely associated with massive open online courses (MOOCs), ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As sophomore Nathan Beckman sat outside Room 224 of the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, he marked time by watching videos on his phone before Biology 230 dismissed and his ...
Every lecture period in an introductory crop science course was interrupted with a 5 minute exercise about half way through the class period. Each exercise asked questions about topics covered in ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is rallying for the firing of additional Texas A&M leaders after a viral video of a professor teaching ...
Are Science Lecture Classes Sexist? Both men and women complain that it's harder to get A's in college science and math classes than in, say, sociology and history. And they're right. But it turns out ...