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 ...

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 ...

University of Florida professor Michael Moulton thinks copyright law protects the lectures he gives to his students, and he's headed to court to prove it. Moulton and his e-textbook publisher are ...

Put everything into perspective and university is 95% note-taking, 5% all the other stuff. If you can take good notes, you're on track to make the academic side of things much easier for yourself.

The traditional days of note-taking, involving only a pen, notebook, and undivided attention, have evolved. Before the internet or personal computers were standard in classrooms, note-taking was ...

A physics course that hooked a generation reminds us that teachers need support. It’s a 50-year-old physics textbook that runs to 1,500 pages and whose contents were declared a failure by its famous ...