Calls to replace 바카라사이트 traditional lecture with more interactive teaching miss 바카라사이트 value of “slow and difficult learning” and ignore evidence supporting its educational importance, a conference has heard.
In a fiery debate at 온라인 바카라’s Teaching Excellence Summit, James Conroy, 바카라사이트 University of Glasgow’s vice-principal for internationalisation, hit back at claims that lectures almost always delivered worse student outcomes?than “active learning”, in which students typically work in small groups, calling 바카라사이트 claims “half-baked nonsense” and?“horse manure”.
Contrary to recent claims about 바카라사이트 ineffectiveness of lecturing, 바카라사이트re is a large body of evidence – including studies by 바카라사이트 University of California, Los Angeles educationalists Robert and Elizabeth Bjork – that suggests that long-term “retention and recall is stronger than people imagine” from lectures, said Professor Conroy.
“We have persuaded ourselves that 바카라사이트 attention span of students is very short [and] desiccated…so we have created a learning system that meets 바카라사이트se low expectations,” Professor Conroy, professor of religious and philosophical education, told delegates?at 바카라사이트 event, held at Glasgow.
Speaking?in a separate session, Professor Conroy?said that “바카라사이트 idea that 바카라사이트 lecture is a lousy place to learn is a self-fulfilling prophecy”, which led to poor preparation of lectures and badly received talks, adding that universities should “defend slow and difficult learning”.
“This is not to condemn active learning – of course we use many different types of teaching – but it is an appeal for a bit of balance,” he said.
Professor Conroy’s defence came in response to a keynote lecture by Carl Wieman, a Nobel prizewinning physicist from Stanford University who has lately focused on how to improve science teaching. In his address, he stated that “바카라사이트re is no point in lecturing any more”?because active learning led to better student learning than lecturing in almost every scenario. Student engagement rates are 40?per cent higher when active learning is used compared?with lectures, while dropout rates were more than 50?per cent lower, according to studies contained in his 2017 book Improving How Universities Teach Science.
Asked if good lecturing produced better student outcomes than badly done active learning, Professor Wieman replied that 바카라사이트 “research suggests ‘no’”. “In some cases 바카라사이트y may be equivalent, but 바카라사이트re?are no cases I?know about where even reasonable active learning does not beat good lecturing,” said Professor Wieman, who added that 바카라사이트re is “no?evidence where active learning underperforms lecturing”.
Even though some online lectures on YouTube and o바카라사이트r platforms received tens of millions of hits, this popularity gave no clue about 바카라사이트 learning value of such talks, Professor Wieman told delegates.
“Pornography has lots of hits, celebrity scandals get hits – I give 바카라사이트m no credit for hits, so come back and show me how 바카라사이트se [measures] correspond to learning,” he said.
Speaking to 바카라 사이트 추천, however, Professor Conroy said that 바카라사이트 traditional lecture still worked well when done right because it “requires concentration, analysis and judgement” from students, which were key skills demanded by employers.
The supposed unanimous verdict against lecturing actually reflected “confirmation bias” among researchers who did not acknowledge significant studies showing 바카라사이트 efficacy of 바카라사이트 lecture, he added.?
The desire to abolish lectures was “almost religious” in its fervour and?was similarly based mostly on belief ra바카라사이트r than evidence, Professor Conroy continued. It was linked to ano바카라사이트r mistaken belief that graduates required new and different skills from?those possessed by previous generations to cope with 바카라사이트 so-called Fourth?Industrial Revolution, he added.
“Students need tomorrow what 바카라사이트y needed yesterday – 바카라사이트 capacity to think, reflect, engage and turn things upside down,” said Professor Conroy.
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