Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

Scott Freeman has assembled the evidence: When STEM courses are taught using active-learning techniques rather than a standard lecture, students perform better, according to a widely cited ...

After nearly a thousand years, it might be time for universities to rethink how professors convey wisdom and information to their students, Science magazine reports. A meta-analysis of 225 studies ...

Please note that for purposes of this research, the term "lecture" is used in a limited sense. According to the researchers: "Following [Donald A. Bligh, author of What's the Use of Lectures?], we ...

Many teachers see digital learning games primarily as a way to help students review information they’ve already learned in a more conventional way. But when it comes to improving how deeply students ...

As AI technology advances, it becomes vital for organizations, leaders and professionals to know how to learn effectively.

ESA’s Four-Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) framework challenges educators to integrate multiple dimensions in the teaching and learning of ecology. One way to accomplish this is using active ...

Fortunately, actively learning can become part of an instructor’s lectures in small steps. Incorporating one of these activities into your already created lectures is a great step in getting students ...

In recent years, massive open online courses (MOOCs), through the likes of Coursera, have attracted hundreds of thousands of students from across the world. Many teachers are using a "flipped" ...