LectureFail?

My response to the Chronicle of Higher Education's request for professors' input on the future of the lecture and teaching in general.

[Mrfanofsonic]

If anyone wants to ANONYMOUSLY report them to me after class--A KILOBYTE

[thhafner]

In my opinion, as a student, the most dangerous part of trying new teaching methods is the risk of failure. I have been apart of a class where the professor decided to try a new discussion method that was a complete, and admitted, failure. So now I have completely missed out on the learning experience that I both need and payed a great deal of money for.

[Sam-dcbg]

Everyone doesn't learn the same way, so no one model is going to fit. Some are really really good at taking notes and studying those set of notes. I suspect that this is a type that loves the lecture model the most. Others, like myself, have the ability to learn, but not at the pace of lecture. We need that personal attention from tutoring or a flipped classroom where concepts are drilled into us at our own pace. I get absolutely nothing out of a 3 hour engineering lecture, but still manage to get As because of youtube videos.

[israelcrawford]

Hello not sure if you are still aactive but do you know anything about tensegrity structures and how to model it in mathlab?

[anzatzi]

Thoughtful. I honestly see lecture on the decline, to be supplanted by granular video presentations, ie Khan, educator, etc, with supplementation by recitation and lab classes. At least for grades 7-14.This approach needn't empahsize mechanical procedures--as it is characterized. It is simply a form factor. The primary impediment to learning in my view is presentions that excise non trivial algebraic steps and textbooks that do not clearly provide comprehensive exercise answers. Good luck