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A lecture (from Latin: lēctūra'reading') is an oral presentation intended to present information or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a university or college teacher. Lectures are used to convey critical information, history, background, theories, and equations.
A public lecture (also known as an open lecture) is one means employed for educating the public in the arts and sciences. Gresham College, in London, has been providing free public lectures since its founding in 1597 through the will of Sir Thomas Gresham. The Royal Society held its first ever meeting at Gresham College in November 1660, after ...
Chautauqua ( / ʃəˈtɔːkwə / shə-TAW-kwə) is an adult education and social movement in the United States that peaked in popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. The Chautauqua brought entertainment and culture for the whole community, with ...
MNIF Public Lecture Series at Montana Neuroscience Institute Foundation. Neuroscience Lecture Series at University of Wisconsin–Madison. NRC Lecture Series at Neuroscience Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. NUIN Lecture Series at the Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience.
TED Conferences, LLC ( Technology, Entertainment, Design [7]) is an American-Canadian non-profit [7] media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". [8] It was founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks in February 1984 [2] as a technology conference, in which Mickey ...
Seminar. A seminar is a form of academic instruction, either at an academic institution or offered by a commercial or professional organization. It has the function of bringing together small groups for recurring meetings, focusing each time on some particular subject, in which everyone present is requested to participate.
The Last Lecture is a 2008 New York Times best-selling book co-authored by Randy Pausch —a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—and Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal. [1] The book extends the September 2007 lecture by Pausch entitled "Really ...
Course (education) In higher education, a course is a unit of teaching that typically lasts one academic term, is led by one or more instructors ( teachers or professors ), and has a fixed roster of students. A course usually covers an individual subject. Courses generally have a fixed program of sessions every week during the term, called ...