Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

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 ...

This article was updated on October 10, 2023, with additional contributions by Mars Girolimon. How you take notes can affect how much information you’re able to recall. You could make reviewing course ...

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Good note taking skills start before the class begins. It is important to read all the required assignments ahead of time. Lectures are designed to supplement the reading assignments, not replace them ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newt Gingrich once called himself "the most seriously professorial politician since Woodrow Wilson." But that was 1995, and the "Contract with America" co-author had just helped to propel Republicans ...

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