Last spring, as I was preparing for a new semester, I had an epiphany: Closed-book exams seem to unfairly aid students who excel at memorization. So I decided to allow my classes to use notes during ...

E arly in my career, I produced hundreds of pages of new lecture notes every year. One day, a senior colleague, perhaps taking pity on my 4/4 teaching load, stopped me in the hallway to remind me that ...

Imagine yourself sitting in a large lecture hall--which can range between 300 to 500 students--and while you are trying your best to digest what your instructor is saying, your mind is on everything ...