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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Exercise helps kids focus in school. Any kindergarten teacher will tell you that. So perhaps it’s no surprise that taking a break during a long classroom lecture to stretch and get ...

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 ...

In the past 10 years an active-learning course, called Active Physics, has gradually displaced lecture-based introductory course in physics at an American university. But are active-learning ...

After a year of online courses, some Yale classes this fall have maintained a hybrid model through optional Zoom lectures and recorded classes. Some large lecture classes, such as “Introduction to ...

On test day for my Behavioral Ecology class at UCLA, I walked into the classroom bearing an impossibly difficult exam. Rather than being neatly arranged in alternate rows with pen or pencil in hand, ...

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This course is available on the BSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, BSc in Economics, BSc in Mathematics and Economics, BSc in Mathematics with Economics, BSc in Mathematics, Statistics ...

Classes in large lecture halls — those with well over 200 people — are intended to be exactly what the term “class” entails: the professor lectures the class, students are expected to take notes and ...

I shall say this without shame: I lecture in my courses. Yes, I know, in every discussion of “flipped classes” we are reminded that lecturing as a means of transferring basic factual information is a ...