Lecturing

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Definition

• In the context of this wiki, this entry refers to lecturing in higher education (1 teacher plus many students).

Lecturing is not just content delivery:

• • The lecture has to preparred according some simple or more complicated instructional design method, e.g. backwards design. This includes activities outside the lecture hall (homework, labs, ..)
  • There are different appropriate instructional design models such as direct instruction and nine events of instruction.

We also should make a distinction between lecturing as "telling" (i.e. as pedagogic method of presentation) to be combined with other methods and lecturing as global pedagogic strategy and that includes exhibits, demonstrations, question/response interactions, small student activities, etc.

See also:

• Technology-enhanced classroom (for ICT use in usually smaller classrooms)

Instructional design models for lecturing

sorry for the moment we don't present any specific models for lecturing in lecture halls, but some of the links below do !

Technology

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See also: Computer-integrated_classroom. There exist tools to make lecturing with many students more interactive.

• Presentation software (all sorts, e.g. powerpoint)
• Interactive demonstrations with software (e.g. simulations)
• Voting and question management systems (via student's notebooks and mobile devices)
• Overlay techniques, e.g. with a whiteboard or a tablet PC
  • Teacher uses "half-baked" teaching materials and adds things
  • Teacher can blend in student contributions (votes, questions, etc.)

Links

• Notes on Lecturing, by Phil Race, University of Durham

• Lecturing Effectively - Chapter 7 from Florida State University Guide to Teaching and Learning Practices.

• Twenty terrible reasons for lecturing

• Lecturing by Crag McInnis.

• Lecturing] Vanderbilt Center for Teaching has a few links

• Delivering a Lecture by Barbara Gross Davis

• Some lecturing heuristics by Patrick H. Winston (DSchneider did assist to PHW's lectures more than 20 years ago and liked them)

References

• Gross Davis, Barbara (1993). Tools for Teaching, Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco.

• Bligh, Donald A. (2000) What's the Use of Lectures? (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-7879-5162-5