Lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique, and now that information is everywhere some say it's a waste of time. Now, physicists have the data to prove it. But efforts to lose the ...

Keep the Socratic Teaching Method, But Change the Focus David B. Wilkins is the Lester Kissel professor of law and vice dean for global initiatives on the legal profession at Harvard Law School.

As many trainees have likely experienced, these clinical skills are not optimally taught through a lecture format or a passing demonstration. This blog post details three evidence-based methods for ...

This can also be applied to in-person teaching. Students still find it challenging to remain focused during two-hour-long lectures when lecturers fail to engage them throughout.

Many students disengage during traditional lecture-based lessons, opting to self-study from the textbook. This has prompted me to rethink my approach to teaching and find more engaging, interactive ...

Method: One region's VDPs and trainers received e-learning; another's received a traditional one hour lecture. Retention and understanding were tested and compared.

Sept. 12, 2002 — Despite concerns about the value of the Internet in medical education, a new study finds that online lectures are a "feasible, efficient and effective method" of teaching ...

A study of teaching methods for the first graduate course in social work research is reported in this paper. Three approaches involving different levels of student responsibility were compared in ...

In a way, there are two Norman Nemrows. There’s the real-life professor who spent much of his career teaching accounting students at Brigham Young University. And there’s the one I’ll call ...