Some students try frantically to write down everything their professor says in a lecture. Others take hardly any notes at all, planning instead to rely on the lecture outline or worse yet, their ...

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 ...

Put everything into perspective and university is 95% note-taking, 5% all the other stuff. If you can take good notes, you're on track to make the academic side of things much easier for yourself.

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 physics course that hooked a generation reminds us that teachers need support. It’s a 50-year-old physics textbook that runs to 1,500 pages and whose contents were declared a failure by its famous ...

In 2017, a business lecturer posted a photo on LinkedIn showing a completely empty university classroom, 15 minutes after the class had been scheduled to start. This is not an isolated incident.

I shall say this without shame: I lecture in my courses. Yes, I know, in every discussion of “flipped classes” we are reminded that lecturing as a means of transferring basic factual information is a ...