Every student deserves an equal chance to learn, regardless of their abilities or challenges. Accessible lecture videos can make that possible. Simple adjustments, like clear audio or well-placed ...

The unfortunate truth is, for most undergraduates, the majority of their time spent “learning” at Princeton is occupied by lectures. Last spring, I argued that professors should stop lecturing us; in ...

One day, our class began with spoons. As students filed into the lecture hall, the teaching assistants, offering no explanation, handed every fourth or fifth student some type of spoon. The spoons ...

Statistics 100 has one of the highest enrollments at the University with over 3,300 students taking the course in 2014-2015 academic year. The topic and its contents have become a highly integrated ...

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 ...

[Today’s students] are pushing lecture capture, not as a tool to replace class, but as a tool to review it and get even more out of it. Jimmy Lieu, University of Pennsylvania One of the most ...

Now that school’s out, I’m going to pick up where I left off (two months ago!) in my series on how I make screencasts. So far I’ve made three posts in this series. Let’s suppose I have a lecture or ...

My preferred solution is for the University to abolish lectures, and for professors to instead publish their notes and hold ...

If you’re anything like me, you won’t realize just how many people are in those large lecture classes until you sit in Foellinger Auditorium for the first time. After that, you’ll quickly realize that ...

The New York Times ran a story a couple weeks ago that finally made its way across my radar today (it's a snow day, so I'm working at home and have a few moments at lunch to troll about the Interwebs) ...