There’s a familiar look in every college lecture hall. The glazed-over stare of someone just realizing they’re twelve slides wholly behind and lost. The professor keeps talking. The notes don’t make ...

A recent UCLA study suggests that students who speed-watch video lectures can actually understand what they learn from them. These can be similar to listening to the same pre-recorded clip at a ...

Those who have watched recorded video lectures for an academic class know how much precious studying time those videos can take up — time that seems to drag on even more if the speaker talks slowly or ...

One of the biggest studies of its kind to date has concluded that although the introduction of lecture capture does lead to reduced class attendance, academics must accept that students see it as a ...

Skip this paragraph if at any point it sounds familiar. A stereotypical American college student — let’s call him Michael Normalperson — goes to a college lecture class. He is bored. The time he doesn ...

Will the Internet relegate college professors to the dustbin of history? Not entirely, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. But one important component of their jobs—the traditional lecture—may ...

The Ida B. Wells lecture series explores contemporary issues impacting the rights of women and justice for all marginalized people and elevates the voices of those who have been silenced. The series ...