This fall, students enrolled in CS50, Harvard’s behemoth introductory Computer Science course, will only be asked to attend two lectures in person. The new policy, one of a host of changes announced ...

All 16 videos and supporting material from the Spring 2025 version of Stanford's CS193p course are now online, for free.

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 ...

For three decades, UC Berkeley professor Alex Filippenko has taught his popular Introduction to General Astronomy class to up to 730 students in Wheeler Hall. While lecturing, he spins donuts on a ...

Take a 60-minute lecture. Cut the excess verbiage, do away with most of the details, and pare it down to key concepts and themes. What’s left? A “microlecture” over in as few as 60 seconds. A course ...

Instructors often ask, “Is a live lecture preferable to a pre-recorded lecture?” In the realm of online teaching and learning, pre-recorded content is always preferable to live lectures because ...

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 ...

Two months ago, nobody would have predicted that education at every level, from kindergarten through graduate programs, would either shut down or move to online courses. Most teachers don’t have prior ...

Tertiary students are calling on universities to discount their course fees for degrees that offer lectures exclusively online, after noticing some courses no longer offer the classes in person. While ...

If you're on a taught course, it is likely that lectures will be a key part of your learning experience. Lectures are often used to deliver the main topics of your course in a large-group environment.

Those of us who are interested in pedagogy typically advocate engaged, active, student-led forms of learning. But in the modern academy, most of us have had to teach at least one large lecture course.