(PhysOrg.com) -- Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a University of British Columbia study ...

Poster presentation: View a poster (PDF) describing this project from the 2012 Symposium on Teaching and Learning. Description: This project studies the combined effect of a lecture method and ...

After more than a decade of teaching in both private and public universities, one thing is clear to me: Traditional teaching methods like slide-to-slide PowerPoint presentations no longer engage ...

One day, our class began with spoons. As students filed into the lecture hall, the teaching assistants, offering no explanation, handed every fourth or fifth student some type of spoon. The spoons ...

The traditional, lecture-based method of instruction has been increasingly criticised in recent years for failing to actively engage students and for its passive nature. Active learning practices, ...

Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a new study. Interactive teaching methods significantly ...