CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Philip Zelikow packs a lot into his modern world history course, roaming in a given week from the Napoleonic wars to Latin American revolutions to India circa 1800. But the ...

Why? Setting the agenda for the class meeting will reinforce to students what topics will be covered, while also demonstrating how prepared you are as an instructor, and can also help establish your ...

David Quinn explains how strategies that work in person to facilitate active participation and peer support among students can be adapted to large online lectures The term “traditional lecture” ...

The move to online teaching is a chance to redesign higher education delivery to reflect the way students learn in our digital age, replacing traditional lectures with more interactive material Until ...

Understanding how time “works” in online teaching and course design is often a challenge for online instructors, especially those new to online education. Four distinct yet related questions can ...

For three decades, UC Berkeley professor Alex Filippenko has taught his popular Introduction to General Astronomy class to up to 730 students in Wheeler Hall. While lecturing, he spins donuts on a ...

A free, massively open online course (MOOC) on Understanding the Brain: The Neurobiology of Everyday Life will begin Monday, April 28, and will include what may become the world’s largest memory ...

Louis I. Kahn lecturing at the ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Image © Peter Wenger Check out our favourite sources after the break. A Post-Modernist Utopia: the American ...