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, ...

A student opens their Chromebook and logs into AP Classroom. Opening their assignments, they begin an AP Daily video lesson, taking notes as they watch. The student adjusts the playback speed to 1.5, ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. A growing number of students say they prefer asynchronous learning over other course delivery methods ...

With the move to remote teaching, many more instructors are recording video lectures. But, studies on their effectiveness are still emerging. Regardless, the research to date is clear that applying a ...

Researchers at MIT have released a video and audio search tool that solves one of the most challenging problems in the field: how to break up a lengthy academic lecture into manageable chunks, ...

A pilot program at Northwestern is giving students who spend lecture on Facebook and Sporcle a second chance to watch what they may have missed. Students in Prof. Thomas O’Halloran’s Chemistry 103 ...

What is Chunking and Why is it Important? Academically speaking, chunking is essentially the breaking down and selective grouping of the content you want your students to learn. OK, but why is that ...

Making videos for online classes doesn’t have to be costly. Here are ways to make them look professional on a budget Ten years ago, when the first Massive Open Online Courses (Moocs) were launched at ...

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 ...

Jeremy Gleick is a sophomore in bioengineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. May 7, 2012 Any system that helps people learn is worthwhile, and online courses definitely help people ...