A very interesting lecture on Grace O'Malley otherwise known as 'Granuaile' delivered by Author Anne Chambers, was enjoyed by members of the Society and the General Public at the Parish Centre, ...

Conflating ‘interesting’ with ‘entertaining’ and getting caught in a never-ending loop of shinier and shinier edutainment should be shunned in favour of cultivating sustained interest How can we make ...

Many academics tout active learning approaches as the gold standard to keep students engaged in the classroom. When it comes to accounting, though, many experienced faculty members know that lectures ...

As with anything, college lectures have changed in many ways over the years. When I was an undergraduate student at the University of Connecticut in the late 1980s, lectures were pretty much delivered ...

Acclaimed PBS NewsHour political commentator Mark Shields visited Northwestern on Tuesday to deliver the 2012 Minow Lecture in Communications. Shields’ talk focused on his experience covering ...

A guide to making lectures more interactive learning experiences that keep students interested Nine out of 10 students would “strongly prefer” or “somewhat prefer” to have in-person lectures that were ...

President A P J Abdul Kalam spoke for about 45 minutes at the concluding session of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas on January 9, and to many it might have seemed like a professor giving a lecture to a ...

Howard Stone raised a party balloon and turned to face a lecture hall filled with children. "I want you to blow up the balloon and let the air out and make the worst screeching sound you can possibly ...

Olin Smith, Hayden Stoke and Aden Ohlin (from left) react in excitement as Weber State University chemistry professor Michelle Paustenbaugh mixes cabbage juice with various acids and bases and causes ...

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