Three teaching experts offer color commentary on a classroom scene, and discuss the pros and cons of this enduring teaching format.

In natural sciences, digital tools for information management are essential but formats for teaching them were missing. Coffee Lectures provide such a format, which is now successfully adopted by 50 ...

Some people, brilliance aside, have personalities that are simply incompatible with lecture-format teaching. This commonly presents itself as the absent-minded professor.

To be perfectly honest, though, the lecture format, far more than the noisy seminar, enabled me to think deeply about a topic rather than being distracted by poorly planned and redundant comments ...

However, large lectures have been increasingly criticized as ineffective for a variety of learners. For instance, students who arrive at college well-prepared are likely to find large lectures boring, ...

What flipped classroom proponents recognize is that there is variation in the quality of lecture classes on our campuses. Some classes should be left alone, and some classes could benefit from moving ...

Trying to engage large groups of students in a lecture hall can feel like a nightmare for some professors. Keeping students engaged, learning and on topic can be a challenge but is crucial to their ...

Have you ever given a lecture to a group of adult learners? If so, you may have noticed their eyes losing focus and phones appearing as you moved through your session. This is because the traditional ...

Active learning in large classes While active learning is a natural fit for small seminar courses, instructors facing a hundred (or more) students seated in rows designed for passive spectatorship ...

Most first- and second-year medical students don't attend lectures. A student and a professor suggest it's a good time to think a lot about medical education, starting with "flipping the classroom." ...