Open Yale Courses has made professors’ lectures available to Internet users around the world, but it is also changing how those professors teach on campus. The website, which now features videos and ...
Schoolwide policies that address digital recording of classroom lectures are getting a closer look at some higher education institutions after a recent incident at Orange Coast College (OCC) in Costa ...
From laptops in class to Googleing papers, technological innovations have sparked debates over whether these advancements help students to achieve or foster a new sense of laziness. The newest form of ...
Products that can record a classroom lecture and make it available after the fact sometimes raise concerns that class attendance will drop off as a result. For the most part, that hasn't been the case ...
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 Video Norm, ...
Personal narrative plays an important role in Mike Garver’s teaching style. Garver, a professor of marketing at Central Michigan University, often uses anecdotes from his own life in his lectures, ...
Faculty can access the Classroom Lecture Capture opt-in page from BlazerNet. Opting in to Lecture Capture for a course will schedule automatic recordings of all scheduled class sessions. Note: The ...
He also cited studies that pointed to higher student achievement and even better classroom attendance resulting from students reviewing video materials outside of the classroom. Nevertheless, my ...
This year, more university students and professors will encounter a trend that has come to be known as "flipping the classroom." It's been largely associated with massive open online courses (MOOCs), ...
If you are in college, I don’t mean to alarm you—but you are probably being experimented on. Stop checking for both of your kidneys; it’s not that kind of experiment. But chances are, one or more of ...
When video recordings of Ravi Janardan’s computer-science course at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities first went online, the students loved it. Instead of dragging themselves out of bed for the ...
COLLEGE PARK — Edward F. Redish has given up half the equations he used to write on the chalkboard in his physics lecture for non-majors. Instead, he surrounds himself with electronic toys on a ...