Conflating ‘interesting’ with ‘entertaining’ and getting caught in a never-ending loop of shinier and shinier edutainment should be shunned in favour of cultivating sustained interest How can we make ...

A guide to making lectures more interactive learning experiences that keep students interested Nine out of 10 students would “strongly prefer” or “somewhat prefer” to have in-person lectures that were ...

DURING A RECENT talk playfully titled “Vax Museum,” epidemiologist René F. Najera focused on unsung heroes behind the development of vaccines, the kind of people he likes to highlight in his History ...

Pardon us for trafficking in stereotypes, but Friday nights in Newport Beach aren’t only about Technicolor martinis and skyscraper stilettos. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) Courtesy of ...

As with anything, college lectures have changed in many ways over the years. When I was an undergraduate student at the University of Connecticut in the late 1980s, lectures were pretty much delivered ...

Major Charles Lynch '90, of the medical staff of the United States Army, delivered an interesting lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Personal Experiences in the Russo-Japanese ...

An interesting address on the founding and work of one of the pioneer educational institutions of the West, the Idaho Industrial Institute, was given last night in the Union by Rev. E. A. Paddock, its ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...