In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

How can we make our lessons more interesting? Should we make our lessons more interesting? In an era where we are engaged in a monumental battle for students’ attention, can we afford not to? So many ...

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 ...

Nine out of 10 students would “strongly prefer” or “somewhat prefer” to have in-person lectures that were also recorded, according to a survey by the UPP Foundation Student Futures Commission ...

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 ...

DURING A RECENT talk playfully titled “Vax Museum,” epidemiologist René F. Najera focused on unsung heroes behind the development of vaccines, the kind of people he likes to highlight in his History ...

THE popular lecture, in the Northern States of America, has become, in Yankee parlance, ‘'an institution”; and it has attained such prevalence and power that it deserves more attention and more ...

This is my daughter, to me, every week, on the day she has science class. She is eight. She already hates science. This is also new. When did she start hating science? “The science teacher won’t stop ...

Major Charles Lynch '90, of the medical staff of the United States Army, delivered an interesting lecture in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Personal Experiences in the Russo-Japanese ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...