Physical activity has known benefits for people and their overall health, including brain health, disease prevention and increased life expectancy for many. Exercise breaks also can help student ...

Large lecture classes may be a new experience for many students, but there are strategies for doing well. Here are some tips for making your lecture class a success this semester. If possible, sit as ...

Beginning in fall semester 2013, I began to teach much larger lectures than I had previously taught. This was in part due to moving my tenure home to ENVS, where classes are not capped due to ...

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 ...

An app founded by two University of Minnesota students launched in August to help streamline the process of creating study groups and meeting new people in college classes. Amin Halimah, the app ...

Math teacher Stacey Roshan creates video lectures that her students watch at home or on mobile devices. Photo by Mike Fritz/ PBS NewsHour Stacey Roshan, a math teacher at the Bullis School in Potomac, ...

If you are a student at the University of Michigan or any medium-to-large university, you have probably looked up in a large lecture to see a sea of students on laptops playing The New York Times ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – As sophomore Nathan Beckman sat outside Room 224 of the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall, he marked time by watching videos on his phone before Biology 230 dismissed and his ...

The future doctors of America cut class. Not to gossip in the bathroom or flirt behind the bleachers. They skip to learn — at twice the speed. Some medical students follow along with class remotely, ...