A university professor has found a way to help students -- and himself -- power through long lecture classes: exercise breaks. A new study showed that five-minute exercise sessions during lectures ...

Every year a committee, comprised of graduate students and one faculty member, organizes a yearlong series of lectures by prominent scholars, curators and visual artists on various topics in art ...

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 ...

The University Lecture Series provides three to five lectures each year addressing different disciplines within the academic community. Lecture Series strives to bring in speakers covering a broad ...

Large lecture courses are a staple in many disciplines, varying in size from 40 students up to 400+. They are often viewed as an effective and economical way to guide students through foundational ...

Trying to engage large groups of students in a lecture hall can feel like a nightmare for some professors. Keeping students engaged, learning and on topic can be a challenge but is crucial to their ...

When Martha Alibali, professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, first used lecture-capture technology last spring, she worried that her efforts might suppress in-person ...