Scientists say they've made a key breakthrough that would allow robots to figure out complex tasks on their own, but experts ...

Discover how combining feedback and reflection helps students improve skills, challenge assumptions, and become more adaptive ...

Slow TV and Active TV are two different types of entertainment that are beneficial alternatives to other overstimulating kids ...

Trading lectures for active learning opportunities is gaining momentum across U.S. medical schools, according to an April 2 article from the Association of American Medical Colleges. Active learning ...

Step into most college classrooms today and you will likely see a familiar scene: slides glowing at the front, a professor lecturing, students scribbling notes or staring at laptops. Despite decades ...

Like many university instructors, Steven Jackson knows his way around a lecture hall. The rows of seating, the balcony above, the lectern centered carefully at the front — all part of the traditional ...

Johnson & Wales University has redesigned its Core Curriculum. General education classes will now be more hands-on and relevant to students across all majors. The overhaul comes more than a decade ...

If you’ve ever finished an online lecture and realized you barely remember what was covered, you’ve experienced the difference between active vs. passive learning. In virtual classrooms, it’s easy to ...

Most teachers (myself included) don’t want to rely on lectures and worksheets to do our jobs. The problem is that it’s time-intensive and difficult to plan for lots and lots of active learning, which ...

Abstract: An important question in data-driven control is how to obtain an informative dataset. In this work, we consider the problem of effective data acquisition of an unknown linear system with ...

Associate Teaching Professor Cecil Joseph remembers the first time he taught physics in one of UMass Lowell’s Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms. Instead of facing rows of students ...

Inquiry-based learning has been gaining more attention in classrooms across the world. Teachers often ask, What does it look like in practice? How does it differ from more traditional approaches? At ...