A recent New York Times article, Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting, resumed the debate over whether laptops and other digital devices should be banned from classrooms, and if ...

Some students try frantically to write down everything their professor says in a lecture. Others take hardly any notes at all, planning instead to rely on the lecture outline or worse yet, their ...

Byline: Nia Bowers Highlights If you’re a student in the United States right now, you’re likely feeling the pressure of ...

A new study suggests that giving students pertinent visual information, such as a diagram or outline, at the start of a lesson will lead to better understanding of that lesson. The study, by Mark A.

The lecture notes of 129 L1 and L2 students were examined in terms of five indexes for the content of notes: (a) the total number of words and notations, (b) the number of information units, (c) the ...

Research suggests that effective note-taking can improve retention by as much as 34% compared to not taking notes at all. The traditional days of note-taking, involving only a pen, notebook, and ...