Psych 101 was about to start, and Pam Mueller had forgotten her laptop at home. This meant more than lost Facebook time. A psychology grad student at Princeton, Mueller was one of the class teaching ...

The primary purpose of note taking is to encourage active learning and to prepare study materials for exams. Developing note taking skills should help you organize information into an understandable ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Once upon a time, university lectures were accompanied by the sound of pens scribbling on paper. But if you go into a lecture hall ...

1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Am I taking good notes? Is there something I'm missing? Good notes can transform your university studies, yet many students haven’t been taught how to take them effectively. Hint ...

Despite a recurring stream of educational fads, lectures still dominate teaching approaches. In spite of such teaching reforms as "hands-on" learning, small group collaborations, project-based ...

Kenneth A. Kiewra does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Handwriting might be a lost art, but educators should make sure it lives on in the classroom. According to a new study , Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer of Princeton University and UCLA Los Angeles ...

Many students bring laptops to class, thinking that typing their notes will make them better learners than the 'old fashioned' method of writing by hand. They're wrong. Taking notes is not about ...

Penny Van Bergen receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Google and the Marsden Fund. Emma Burns receives funding from the Australian Research Council, is an associate editor for the ...