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 ...

Pre-recorded lectures are a key feature of online courses, and creating these lectures may initially seem straightforward. Experienced in-person instructors may assume that when they are planning to ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

Matthew R. Tobin ’27, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a double concentrator in Government and Economics in Winthrop House. Falling asleep in lecture? You aren’t alone. According to a report by the ...

Student engagement can be tricky whether you're in a traditional face-to-face class or teaching online. It is one of the most pressing challenges in online learning. Even with physical presence, many ...

Online polling can be a great way to keep students critically engaged throughout class. By asking 1-3 questions per class, a professor can keep their students actively involved in the learning process ...

U.S. college students have an increasingly positive perception of AI and are applying it to study more actively and efficiently, while educators see new opportunities to enhance instruction, according ...

This post was updated April 9 at 9:19 p.m. I am used to feeling like an audience member in my professors’ lectures. Their passion for their research usually plays like a live YouTube video essay.

A new EXCITE Active Learning Certificate of Completion is now available to support faculty, staff, and graduate teaching assistants interested in strengthening student engagement through active ...

In this lecture series we study the pure exploration problem. This problem is also more commonly known as “Sequential Design of Experiments” or “Active Sequential Hypothesis Testing”, and it is an ...