In his nearly two decades of teaching biology at the California Institute of Technology, one of the challenges that Bruce Hay has struggled with over the years is how to encourage student ...

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 ...

Recently, Stephen Kosslyn, the founding Dean of Minerva Schools, offered a great explanation of why active learning is superior to lectures. While I admire and appreciate radical innovations in ...

The crises facing university education is not just located in the continued cash crunch plaguing them, neither is it confined to the unplanned universities expansion, or the persistent tribalisation ...

Daryl Hippensteel and Alan Gauthreaux, Dark Bayou authors, at the February history series. (Annette Phillips) St. Bernard Parish has a unique history and a rich cultural heritage. History lovers and ...

Many college students see teaching style as a barrier to their success, but which class formats and active learning methods do they prefer? In a Student Voice Pulse survey of 1,250 undergraduates, ...

For the next 20 minutes I’m sharing a stage with an American called Mike, a teenager called Jessie and a thirtysomething called Jennifer. The stage is virtual: I’m in my lounge watching our heads ...

Of course, art galleries are a place for looking. But lately, they’ve become a place for listening, too, as the region’s best showplaces for painting, sculpture and other creative forms have upped ...

One day, our class began with spoons. As students filed into the lecture hall, the teaching assistants, offering no explanation, handed every fourth or fifth student some type of spoon. The spoons ...