Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking the Way College Students Learn

In an increasingly competitive global economy the best jobs go to highly skilled workers who can learn fast. Are today's college graduates up to the challenge? Many experts say no. In this program, American RadioWorks producer Emily Hanford explores how traditional approaches to teaching are failing to provide many college students with the knowledge they need. We hear the unexpected story of how a group of physicists became concerned about what their students were learning, and how their work is influencing a new generation trying to reinvent college so that students really learn.