Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

Large lecture courses are a staple in many disciplines, varying in size from 40 students up to 400+. They are often viewed as an effective and economical way to guide students through foundational ...

Scott Freeman and the other scholars behind a new study comparing the efficacy of lectures with more "active" forms of instruction in the science classroom are not aiming low in describing the ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Lecturing is often pitted against what is commonly called active learning, an umbrella category that ...

The Group for Teaching Innovation, in collaboration with CELT, invites you to our first Teaching Innovation Studio of the Spring semester. Active learning, in which students engage in the learning ...

The study, published in the journal PNAS, claims to be the most comprehensive analysis of studies comparing undergraduate lecturing to active learning. It reveals a huge difference in results, active ...

On a Thursday afternoon in February, I watched my students at the whiteboard. Gaby was drawing a series of cartoons and a list of the kinds of animals that had been sent into space by different ...

For students starting medical school, the first year can involve a lot of time in a lecture hall. There are hundreds of terms to master and pages upon pages of notes to take. But when the new class of ...