Quick and Unsystematic Reading as Successful Lecture Preparation

• In Event: Poster Session 2
  In Poster Session: Language and Literacy in Designed Learning Environments

Abstract

Lectures often have a passive feel to learners, because their concrete actions are mostly limited to listening. This, and time constraints in modern contexts of study may lead to less or no preparation by the students for the content of a lecture thus maneuvering them into a position where sustainable learning is close to impossible. This design-experiment (n=65 teacher students) was conducted within a classic lecture and shows a better and more sustainable learning within classical lecture-like learning settings if learners browse briefly through new learning content before the lecture with very high effect. It also shows better long-term effects if the preparation is disconnected from the learning experience itself regarding the time of preparation.

Author

• Pablo Nicolai Pirnay-Dummer, University of Halle, Germany