On the method of instruction known as "lecturing." Usually the lecturer will stand at the front of the room and recite information relevant to the lecture's content.
I have been part of several classes where no-one wants to answer questions or actively take much part in the discussions. I am sure this must be frustrating for the lecturers, who try really hard to get us to answer and get an interesting discussion…
I am writing this from the perspective of a mathematician. I am wondering whether there is any research on the standard mode of instruction.
Mathematics lectures, at least in my home country, typically work as follows: the prof starts writing on the…
I struggle with staying focused during lectures. However, while listening to online lectures, I started sewing and it has made life so much easier. I am able to listen and follow along. When the time comes to do practice questions, I do a lot better…
I took a semester where a professor was teaching Statistics. He gave out no lecture materials nor the name of any text books.
When I asked him for a text book name, he gave me a name of a 900+ pages' book.
I could not find anything relevant in the…
One thing I don't understand about lectures is why the lecturer covers the material that is already presented in the book and assigned as reading material to the students.
Is the assumption that some students are actually incapable of reading? If…
I have been adopting flipped classroom strategies (in upper-level chemistry classes ~20-30 students), but I often get feedback from students that they want me to "just go back to regular lectures" and that they perceive the flipped classes as more…
What is the smallest reasonable amount of time needed to prepare lectures?
I have recently learned that professors at my university (in UK) don't know who is going to teach one of the new modules starting in October. They say they sometimes aren't…
I'm a computer science student who doesn't find lectures useful. I think self-studying is more useful and I should quit my degree in favour of a distant-learning degree. I've tried to convince my parents that lectures are useless for me and that I'd…
My new cohort of students (less than 15) are a specific group that can be highly talkative and don’t always pay attention when I’m teaching. I’ve tried some interactive learning games in the classroom and have been firm that disrupting others is not…
Suppose, to fix ideas, that I have a course that runs for 11-12 weeks with two 2-hour classes per week. There is no further time allocated in the timetable for recitations or TAs; both lectures and exercise sessions are expected to take part in…
Overview of the problem
This question is about 90 ECTS credits and a 2 years long MSc in CSE program with a thesis.
At the university, which I am in, the teachers deliver lectures but most students, including me, don't understand anything. There is…
This is my first question here, so please correct me if I'm wrong in my way of asking.
My question is suggested directly by the title. In my college institution, for each subject, half of the semester is handled by one lecturer, and the next half by…
