2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Am I taking good notes? Is there something I'm missing? Good notes can transform your university studies, yet many students haven’t been taught how to take them effectively. Hint ...

The traditional days of note-taking, involving only a pen, notebook, and undivided attention, have evolved. Before the internet or personal computers were standard in classrooms, note-taking was ...

A recent New York Times article, Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting, resumed the debate over whether laptops and other digital devices should be banned from classrooms, and if ...

To honor the start of a new school year, we bring to you the following Fermi problem: How long would a physics lecture have to be to actually kill you? Or more precisely, from Physics Buzz: Assuming ...

Good note taking skills start before the class begins. It is important to read all the required assignments ahead of time. Lectures are designed to supplement the reading assignments, not replace them ...

This is the first article in a two-part series discussing innovative teaching techniques in college physics classes. Today's installment will focus on interactive programs instated at other ...

Determined to get good grades for the upcoming academic year? Here are some pointers that can help. The practice of taking notes during lectures is said to be an effective way to memorise what is ...

In modern physics, we have learned to formulate the laws for the behavior of matter, and for the large-scale organization of matter, in terms of standard models incorporating a very few parameters. We ...