Dave Smart, left, a professor of viticulture and enology, and Victoria Cross, a program coordinator with the Teaching Resources Center, talk about better teaching strategies and techniques with other ...
Overview: At times information must be transmitted orally to a passive listening audience. But research has shown that after 10 to 20 minutes of continuous lecture, assimilation falls off rapidly. If ...
Do you feel guilty when you lecture? Perhaps you’re afraid that you’re shortchanging students. That, instead, you should be flipping your classroom and getting “active” through group exercises. But ...
The move to online education has required a major rethink of traditional teaching practices. Julianne Law offers insight on how she has adapted her ‘lectures’ for the digital classroom The sudden move ...
I first gave up lecturing about the time my 1992 book came out (Contested Frontiers in Amazonia, co-authored with Charles H. Wood). With all my brilliant lecture notes neatly offered up in such an ...
Contract teaching positions are becoming the norm for many aspiring professors. Know how to make the best out of them. Last year, after finishing work each day at her administrative job with an art ...
For Professor Rob Pringle’s 56 students, joining Zoom to find their professor lecturing from his basement would be a lot more surprising than seeing him discuss biodiversity while knee-deep in a lake.
A number of UK universities are preparing to keep lectures online into the autumn term. It raises the prospect of Covid disrupting another academic year - and will prompt more questions about fee ...