THESE lectures formed part of a course on scientific method delivered at the University Extension summer meeting at Oxford last August. The discourses are intended to illustrate the forms taken by ...

Teaching methods are the broader techniques used to help students achieve learning outcomes, while activities are the different ways of implementing these methods. Teaching methods help students: ...

Skip this paragraph if at any point it sounds familiar. A stereotypical American college student — let’s call him Michael Normalperson — goes to a college lecture class. He is bored. The time he doesn ...

The present system of graduate instruction in literature and the humanities used in the German universities must command the attention of those who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the ...

Last week we discussed how a good teacher should handle the classroom situation. Let us now focus our attention on the various styles of teaching in a classroom. Teaching in higher classes mostly ...

Did you catch the clever little ambiguity in my title? First, I might be asking if every time a professor lectures it's unethical. Of course, the answer is no. Some lectures are wonderful. They're ...

The traditional days of note-taking, involving only a pen, notebook, and undivided attention, have evolved. Before the internet or personal computers were standard in classrooms, note-taking was ...