…and Susan Ambrose and colleagues (How Learning Works) in 2010. The most recent issues of the journal, Active Learning in Higher Education, include articles on such diverse topics as lecture…
…learning. But lectures overloaded with PowerPoint slides quickly change the motivation to extrinsic. This is especially true in fields where high-stakes testing determines future career options. In the case of…
…of lecture, or they can be used to open and close a class session. Students may write ideas about answers, they may talk about answers with those sitting next to…
…to the discussion topic or lecture and then displayed that material in real time to the rest of the class. In this case, the student was a senior biochemistry major…
…floor of our main general classroom building, which has about 14 classrooms, mostly 30- to 50-person rooms, but also with one 120-person tiered lecture hall. The classrooms are assigned to…
…says. “They tend to be very intense, not simply students walking into a lecture hall and hearing a lecture but students [being required] to learn on multiple levels. They’re creating…
…modes. When instructors try to convert their face-to-face lectures to the online format, the lectures often are less effective. “They don’t translate well. They’re not effective for students. Students do…
