Like many university instructors, Steven Jackson knows his way around a lecture hall. The rows of seating, the balcony above, the lectern centered carefully at the front — all part of the traditional ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

In the recent Student Voice survey, students cite teaching style as a major barrier to their academic success. Research points to active learning as a solution, but experts on pedagogy and identity ...

Identified by EDUCAUSE as a top strategic technology, active learning classrooms (ALCs) go beyond just outfitting learning spaces with technology. These engaging, dynamic spaces provide new ...

Education does not only exist in the classroom, as learning is a lifelong journey that extends far beyond. The Fletcher School’s Master of Global Business Administration is an online program that ...

Associate Teaching Professor Cecil Joseph remembers the first time he taught physics in one of UMass Lowell’s Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms. Instead of facing rows of students ...

Engaging students through interactive activities, discussions, feedback and AI-enhanced technologies resulted in improved academic performance compared to traditional lectures, lessons or readings, ...

Purdue University’s Cohort Program for Innovation and Leadership in Online Teaching (CoPILOT) recently won an Online Learning Consortium (OLC) award for excellence in digital learning innovation. This ...

This academic year, several Biomedical Engineering (BME) undergraduates participated in the Discovery Learning Apprenticeship (DLA) Program conducting research in campus labs. Students, their projects ...