MADISON, WI, May 12th, 2010 – Graduate student courses frequently incorporate student-led discussion sessions in order to encourage active participation over passive learning. They can improve ...

Online discussion boards serve as a tool for professors to connect with students asynchronously and promote thoughtful engagement with learning material outside of class time. However, many faculty ...

Why Are Class Discussions Challenging? There are a variety of reasons that class discussions are challenging. It’s not necessarily just students being “lazy”. There could be a lot of real issues and ...

As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions. As we ...

Group work and giving students time to discuss their work helps to build their confidence in using math in science lessons, a new study shows. Researchers have found that discussion is important ...

A Texas community college has launched a new initiative that will enable faculty to cultivate more enriching, engaging class discussions utilizing artificial intelligence (AI). In partnership with the ...

Have you ever just said to a classroom of students, “What do you think about...?” and then let them determine where they conversation went from there? Rather than jump in and control in a moment of ...

Many of the lecture-based classes students take in college require a discussion section. Discussion sections give students the chance to further engage with material they receive in lecture. They can ...

BKC's Institute for Rebooting Social Media is currently recruiting Harvard graduate students for a spring discussion group. This interdisciplinary, student-led group will explore some of social ...

Albuquerque Public Schools administrators and students who met on a recent day to discuss school culture began by tapping into their inner artist. In a small room inside the district’s office building ...