CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Philip Zelikow packs a lot into his modern world history course, roaming in a given week from the Napoleonic wars to Latin American revolutions to India circa 1800. But the ...

Nicholas Presnell has two professors for linear algebra: one official and one virtual. The first is at Arizona State University, where Mr. Presnell is a part-time graduate student in electrical ...

James Nowick has got the world on a screen. He’s logged into a big map of the planet and is cross-referencing it with a YouTube list of the top countries in which people have viewed one of his online ...

One in five science students surveyed by Nature and Scientific American has participated in a MOOC—and most would do so again Stefan Kühn studies biochemistry at Stellenbosch University in the wine ...

The venerable lecture has few allies today. While many in the humanities have long preferred seminar-style instruction, our friends in the sciences have begun to give the lecture a second look. A ...

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 ...

To stay focused during long online lectures, set up a distraction-free study space, break the lecture into smaller mental checkpoints, and take quick movement breaks. Use interactive tools, take ...

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.