Most people dread attending their lectures because they find them painfully boring, long or stressful. That’s not my experience, though. I think attending lectures is fun because I become my most ...

T he year 2020 was awful for so many in academe, so I refuse to talk about the “silver linings” of Covid-19. That framing insults those who have struggled or lost loved ones. As educators, however, ...

In college, I took a three-semester class sequence on European intellectual history taught by a long-tenured professor, Mary Gluck, who lectured straight through each session, usually reserving the ...

When I started teaching at California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1976 it was actually only a “college” not a university. I was 26 years old and only one year out of my Ph.D. program at the ...

Not to mention, the availability of lectures online gives the opportunity for students to be more organized–I can pause and play my lectures whenever I want, which gives me the time to draw out ...

Girl playing flute in public. Source: Pexels/CharlesParker As a college professor, I am required to hold an office hour before my lecture. These office hours are optional and tend to be busier at the ...