“I wish he would just lecture instead of all this active learning stuff. I just want to sit back and take notes.” I overheard this walking behind two students exiting a large lecture class. The ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University has received a four-year $2.3 million federal Department of Education grant to study why active-learning strategies help student retention, success and ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

As lessons are in motion and routines become more familiar, the demands of professional learning can take a back seat to the ...

Students whose STEM courses are taught using active learning perform better than those taught with traditional lectures. That was the top-line finding of a widely cited 2014 meta-analysis, and it has ...

A new study published by University of Minnesota researchers found that working in groups can help students better understand classroom material. The study, published last month, found that within ...

The social side of work is in short supply these days. Post-pandemic, many organizations have turned to some form of a hybrid approach: employees splitting their time between remote work and commuting ...

Five years after the Covid-19 pandemic began, HR teams are still being pushed to the brink of exhaustion. They're dealing with ever-changing, uncertain environments and challenges that require new ...

Have you ever left a lecture or finished reading a chapter with pages of neatly written notes, only to realize later that you barely remember the material? For decades, note-taking has been hailed as ...