Classroom lectures can be long, boring and ineffective, and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan says they have no place in the education. He points to research that shows that most students get bored and ...

What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...

Jennifer Frey, professor of philosophy at the University of Tulsa, has seen the transformational power of a liberal education ...

From "cancel culture" to the threat of nuclear war, the 2022 BBC Reith Lectures analyze the state of freedom around the world. The Reiths are the BBC's flagship lecture series, and usually feature one ...

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

UCSF's new quarterly public lecture series aims to help people understand the human impact of scientific research.

John R. Barker paces the front of the lecture hall, gesturing at slides with a laser pointer and explaining to a room full of undergraduates how scientists use data to make predictions about global ...