Education isn't just about conveying information as efficiently as possible. A lecture, done right, gets to the heart of why a lesson is worth learning. The nation's 80,000 medical, 20,000 dental, and ...

What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...

Classroom lectures can be long, boring and ineffective, and Khan Academy founder Salman Khan says they have no place in the education. He points to research that shows that most students get bored and ...

Historians share surprising stories in the McCauley Lecture Series at the Washington County Free Library in downtown ...

This is the fifth episode of our new podcast series on the future of higher education. You can subscribe in iTunes to get prior and future episodes. This week we’re going back to school. Well, kind of ...

One of my Twitter people asked me to share my thoughts on yesterday’s Chronicle article, “Can Universities Use Data to Fix What Ails the Lecture?” At the time, I skimmed the article and replied that ...

Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will present, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture II — What Can We Do About It?” for the second in her two-part Tanner Lecture on Human ...

Where do society’s assumptions about ideal diets, clothing, lifestyle, and mating choices come from? Marlene Zuk, a professor in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota, will ...

The Program in Judaic Studies proudly welcomes this year's Mytelka Scholar, Beth Berkowitz, and begins her visit to Princeton with this lecture on Monday, February 10. Description Family separation ...