As a doctoral candidate interviewing at a liberal-arts college some years ago, I rambled, waded through pages of notes, and completely lost my train of thought at one point during my job presentation.
“But in college, a lot of the learning happens in lecture halls, with professors talking behind a lectern and students taking notes. We need to prepare our students for that reality.” As I’ve ...
Candidates pursuing the M.A. degree will be expected to complete courses granting at least 30 credits (ten courses at three credits each). Three credits must be in a theory course, ordinarily thought ...
In-person lectures have been a staple of university learning for centuries. But research shows in-person lectures can be an important way to keep students connected to their peers and what they are ...
Four years after two senior academics at Stanford University challenged medical schools to stop lecturing and start flipping their classrooms, major reforms at underway at a handful of colleges to ...
In 2017, a business lecturer posted a photo on LinkedIn showing a completely empty university classroom, 15 minutes after the class had been scheduled to start. This is not an isolated incident.
The annual Arnold M. Clark Memorial Lecture brings high-level speakers in the field of biology to share the latest research and discoveries. Presented by the Department of Biological Sciences, the ...