Rather than a boring lecture, Wetherspoons employees are taught about fire safety and food poisoning through cartoon sing along musicals. The pub chain uses comedy videos complete with wacky ...

As you feel the lecture lose its grasp on you, stop scribbling mindless notes, just pay attention to what’s being covered, and start to think about the questions you would ask others on an exam ...

The most common complaints centre on lectures as didactic, learner-passive and boring. Accompanying these critiques is the oft-cited rule that students’ attention span has a limit of 10-18 minutes.

simply expecting a lecture or presentation to be boring will make you feel more bored, a study suggests. Researchers from the University of Hong Kong suggest we may pay less attention to a talk we ...