Academic Innovation

Feeling stuck on a teaching challenge? Get immediate, expert help at the Academic Innovation Center (MS 240, in the Student Success District across from the Tomás Rivera Center for Academic Excellence)! All UTSA faculty and TAs are welcome to drop in. No appointment needed. Prefer virtual? Schedule a personalized consultation at your convenience via Bookings. [...]

Educators today would be hard-pressed to identify a teaching technique more heartily maligned than the lecture. Critics have called lectures boring, obsolete, old-fashioned, overused, and even unfair. Scholars have declared lectures the losers of the pedagogical cage match with active learning. The criticisms, however, often are leveled at one type of lecture: the full-session, [...]