429 - Teaching Workshop. Long Live the Lecture!

Session Submission Type: Workshop

Description

Lecture bashing has been fashionable for decades, vilified as the dark sin of teaching whose antidote is active learning. At the same time, lecture remains the modal pedagogy in most classrooms. Practiced effectively (just like any other pedagogy), lecturing remains a potentially tremendous tool for enhancing learning. The purpose of this workshop is to make the case that the problem is not lecturing per se, but too much ineffective/weak/ wrongly timed/sociologically uninformed lecturing defined as satisfactory by ourselves and others. The focus of our activity in this lecture/active learning workshop is to learn from the SoTL research, identify specific adoptable strategies, and using our sociological lens, help each other improve so that students may benefit.

Sub Unit

• Teaching Workshop

Session Organizer

• Diane L. Pike, Augsburg College

Leader

• Diane L. Pike, Augsburg College