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Michael Hortsch – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Traditional academic lectures have long been criticized as providing a passive learning environment to students. Often, they do not capture the audience's attention, resulting in learners being distracted or bored and thereby reducing their learning efficacy. Consequently, they are being abandoned by many schools and universities as an educational…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Active Learning, Educational Environment, Anatomy
Thai-Huy Nguyen; Maya Rabinowitz – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted community colleges and created a new context in which they were forced to operate. Faculty, especially those who normally taught in-person, were required to transition quickly to fully online classrooms. Drawing on semi-structured interviews conducted at the start of the pandemic with 17 students pursuing degree…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Community College Students, Student Attitudes, STEM Education
Luke McCrone; Martyn Kingsbury – npj Science of Learning, 2024
The move away from transmission-based lecturing toward a more student-centred active learning approach is well evidenced in STEM higher education. However, the examination of active learning has generally remained confined to formal timetabled contexts, with assumptions made that students independently manage the transition between timetabled and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Student Centered Learning, Active Learning, Higher Education
Michael P. A. Murphy; Andrea Phillipson; Andrew Leger – College Teaching, 2025
Recent years have witnessed the spread of purpose-built active learning classrooms throughout the higher education sector. While these innovative learning spaces are well-suited for a variety of active learning strategies, their lack of a single focal point means they are inconvenient spaces for lecturing. While educational developers often…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, College Students, College Instruction
Neha Parikh; Emily Hansen-Kiss; Walid Fakhouri; Julian N. Holland; Harold Henson; Richard Halpin – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
The effectiveness of incorporating an audience response system (ARS) in improving the learning environment and student performance was assessed in a didactic biomedical science course at a large US dental school. Instructors and students were surveyed for their experiences of using Top Hat-based ARS in a multi-disciplinary biomedical science…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Courses, Audience Response Systems, Educational Environment
Heather Catherine Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study investigates the instructional practices of a chemistry professor during an immersion summer program, with a focus on employing multimodal discourse within a studio-based learning environment. For this study, multimodal discourse includes natural language, gestures, mathematical expressions, symbolic visual representations, and manual…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Design, Chemistry, Summer Programs
Margaret A. Enlow – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research examined if a lecture-based intervention increased the DEI knowledge, awareness, and readiness to change in undergraduate public health students. Topics included a systematic review of DEI activities in undergraduate public health classrooms/academic programs, determining reliability of an adapted tool to measure knowledge,…
Descriptors: Public Health, Intervention, Lecture Method, Diversity Equity and Inclusion