The Chronicle of Higher Education

5 Ways to Ease Students Off the Lecture and Into Active Learning

My course evaluations are in. They are mostly encouraging — except for the ones that say I should lecture more. “Lessen the amount of reading per week and just lecture more,” reads one comment.
C&EN

Active Learning Beats Lectures

Scott Freeman hopes his new study will do for evidence-based teaching methods what the surgeon general’s 1964 report did for research on smoking—shift the conversation. Freeman, a biology lecturer and ...
Inside Higher Ed

On Lecture Capture and Course Quality

--from a tweet by Clint Lalonde @clintlalonde Victoria, BC, Canada, Manager of Learning Technologies, Royal Roads University - linking to my 8/10/11 post on CIO questions. I'm sympathetic to Clint's ...
The Harvard Crimson

Harvard Classes Don’t Have To Be This Boring

Matthew R. Tobin ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a double concentrator in Government and Economics in Winthrop House. Falling asleep in lecture? You aren’t alone. According to a report by the ...