When video recordings of Ravi Janardan’s computer-science course at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities first went online, the students loved it. Instead of dragging themselves out of bed for the ...

(02-18) 18:02 PST SAN FRANCISCO-- Peering out from behind the cool glow of iPads and MacBook Pros, some students sit with rapt attention. A few appear lost in daydreams, or perhaps just lost. At least ...

Students in a lecture class can give the impression of lethargy: Maybe a student sleeps in the back of the classroom, maybe others fidget and doodle. The students who are paying attention may be too ...

If college professors spent less time lecturing, would their students do better? A three-year study examining student performance in a “flipped classroom” — a class in which students watch short ...

Traditionally, undergraduate education has been predominately lecture-based. With the shift to student-centered learning, many educators have had to determine the best method to provide students with ...

Reasonable accommodations are provided pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Accommodations provide equal access to learning and minimize the ...

It's a typical scene: a few minutes before 11:00 on a Tuesday morning and about 200 sleepy-looking college students are taking their seats in a large lecture hall - chatting, laughing, calling out to ...

Julien Berman ’26 lives in Canaday Hall. His column “Toward a Higher Higher Education” appears on alternate Tuesdays. Think of the biggest changes in the past 100 years. Troves of information once ...

This is the fifth episode of our new podcast series on the future of higher education. You can subscribe in iTunes to get prior and future episodes. This week we’re going back to school. Well, kind of ...

This past quarter, students and faculty alike noticed that lectures were constantly interrupted by a cacophony of coughing from students. In previous years, such coughing could be written off as the ...

During my freshman year at the University of Michigan, I had the displeasure of taking Math 105. Like all intro-level math courses at the University, this class is taught using a “flipped classroom” ...