This list of advantages can evaluate when to use the lecture as a teaching mode. If the content would benefit from giving a lecture, the next stage is to take steps to combat the problems and enemies.

The lecture is one of the oldest forms of education there is. "Before printing someone would read the books to everybody who would copy them down," says Joe Redish, a physics professor at the ...

One of the things that’s amenable to scientific study is how we communicate information about science. Science education should, in theory at least, produce a scientifically literate public and ...

After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to ...

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 ...

While it is true there is only one right answer to every math problem, elementary school teacher and Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics Teaching winner Michael Flynn believes there is ...

Last fall, about a month into his first semester of teaching, a graduate-student instructor I mentor came to see me in my office. Before the semester began, he had participated in an intensive ...

The academic year at LSE is made up of the Autumn, Winter and Spring terms. Most taught master's programmes span a full calendar year (September - September), though a few are only nine or ten months ...