The primary purpose of note taking is to encourage active learning and to prepare study materials for exams. Developing note taking skills should help you organize information into an understandable ...

Dust off those Bic ballpoints and college-ruled notebooks: research shows that taking notes by hand is better than taking notes on a laptop for remembering conceptual information over the long term.

1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Am I taking good notes? Is there something I'm missing? Good notes can transform your university studies, yet many students haven’t been taught how to take them effectively. Hint ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, university lectures were accompanied by the sound of pens scribbling on paper. But if you go into a lecture hall ...

Handwriting might be a lost art, but educators should make sure it lives on in the classroom. According to a new study , Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University and UCLA Los Angeles ...

Just about every professor has complained about students with screens in front of them flitting over to Facebook or Tumblr instead of listening to a lecture. But, those distractions aside, it’s hard ...

Despite a recurring stream of educational fads, lectures still dominate teaching approaches. In spite of such teaching reforms as "hands-on" learning, small group collaborations, project-based ...