The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. "Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down," says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the ...

This list of advantages can evaluate when to use the lecture as a teaching mode. If the content would benefit from giving a lecture, the next stage is to take steps to combat the problems and enemies.

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 ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a new study. Interactive teaching methods significantly ...

If we introduce flipped classes in Nepal, it could be effective. Students can watch videos as often as they wish or until they understand the concept. They do not have to do any homework but ...

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 ...

One of the things that’s amenable to scientific study is how we communicate information about science. Science education should, in theory at least, produce a scientifically literate public and ...

The academic year at LSE is made up of the Autumn, Winter and Spring terms. Most taught master's programmes span a full calendar year (September - September), though a few are only nine or ten months ...