Questions tagged [lecture-teaching-method]
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.
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How to measure engagement in uncommunicative class
I'm teaching a lot of students who are fairly unresponsive in a large class that is set early in the morning. While I'm working on ways to encourage them to respond to questions, I find that normal ...
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Lectures are way ahead of the planned schedule for the course. What should be done?
In my university, we submit a lecture plan at the academic semester starts. The lecture plan is a kind of semi-official documentation on the schedule of lectures or topics (Ref: Planning a course: ...
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How to make a college course for a novel topic?
I am an amateur mathematician. (I studied in a university but have not finished the study.)
I discovered some new mathematical theories.
Now I want to make academic courses about my theories.
What I ...
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In teaching, what do we actually mean when we say "syllabus completed"?
In my university, every faculty member has to submit a handout at the semester beginning for his(her) course. The handout is basically a list of topics (a syllabus) that needs to be taught to the (to ...
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Is not providing lecture notes to math students really beneficial to them?
I have attended several lectures in analysis, linear algebra and "higher mathematics for computer science students" in two universities in Germany. None of the professors giving these lectures ...
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What are some uses for clickers/pollers?
I've seen clickers/pollers/etc. used in classrooms for many things, such as evaluation and assessment and agile/contingent teaching.
What other uses are there for clickers in the classroom?
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If my friend sent a recording of his lecture; Is it against the law? [closed]
I don't attend university, but I would love to learn to further my IT skills, is my friend allowed to record his lecture and send it to me? Is there any law against this... Or is he free to do what he ...
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How should I deal with very negative feedback from some students?
I am a lecturer of a computer course in a university. Two months (almost 20 hours) of lectures have already finished. Very recently, I planned to get some feedback from my students on my lectures.
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What to do about students who miss my lectures and then want me to repeat entire material?
I teach at a top undergraduate college of a highly ranked university in India. We have a centralized system where the syllabus is designed at the Central level (with some input from teachers) and ...
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How to write horizontally across the blackboard while keeping handwriting as horizontal as possible?
Does anyone have tips on good ways of writing horizontally across the blackboard?
I notice whenever I write across the blackboard, the line will have a slightly downward slope of 15 degrees and it is ...
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Why wouldn't a professor allow a student to record audio of his lecture?
I am a master’s student in a public university in the state of New York. I do not consider myself to be disabled in any form but I do find it difficult to concentrate in class. I lose focus too often ...
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What can I do about a lecturer who isn't clear enough to understand?
I'm a Maths university student and I just can't seem to learn anything from one of my lecturers.
I understand we, as students, should do personal research on our subject. But he just doesn't make any ...
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How to make programming lectures more effective and stimulating?
I've been assigned the position of Teaching Assistant for the programming part of my university courses in Bayesian Inference, at the MS level. I previously taught a course, a few months ago, in ...
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How do I teach a course that has an extremely clear textbook?
I have decided to use Head First Android Development for my mobile application development course this spring. Like other Head First books, it is easy to read and understand. In my 15+ years of ...
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Countries where lecture duration does not exceed one hour
Most (probably all) universities attribute to each subject a fixed number of credits, which in turn are [most of the time] related to the time spent in classes.
In Brazil, the majority of courses ...
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Self Studying over lectures [closed]
this is my first post here, I'll copy and paste a recent answer I asked in the physics and resulted a little bit inappropriate. I do physics so I'm mainly looking for answers for people in the field ...
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How can teaching staff improve a passive student group?
I have been assigned to a section of student where I am teaching probabilistic models. From the starting day itself, I feel something strange is happening in the class. For example:
I like to have ...
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What can be done about a professor who leaves lectures too early?
If a professor is scheduled to teach two hours, only one day a week, but instead he only teaches one hour, one day a week - in an extremely rushed manner - and tells his students he has to leave, is ...
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The overwhelming silence in shy classes
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 ...
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How to ask professor to let me audit lectures at university I am not enrolled in?
There is a professor in the city I am currently living in who does some interesting work. I would like to sit in on his lectures, but I do not know how to ask him.
What is the best way for me to ask ...
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Not getting along with Spanish professor. Professor is condescending, and picks favorites. I feel I have enough evidence to do something [closed]
I am in a Spanish Translation class at a good public university.
Background: I am a white male and a Spanish/Chemistry double major. I plan to pursue a PhD in Chemistry or teach at the high school ...
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What are the pedagogical and institutional implications of implementing a Lecture Capture system?
My university is about to roll-out a Lecture Capture system (Panopto in this case), and I am in the business of promoting and supporting it. In case it makes a difference, I am in the UK. I suppose ...
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What are the pros and cons of laptops in a classroom?
I simply could not pay attention in a lecture if I brought in a laptop. I always take notes by hand, especially since that's supposed to be better for learning.
A professor of mine stated that ...
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Unsatisfactory Instructor Evaluations: balancing of expectations of engineering students
I teach undergraduate and graduate level courses in mechanical engineering at a research oriented university in the United States. I am a teaching track professor and my sole responsibility, on which ...
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What are the implications of the whole class failing an exam?
I am an MSc student and in my class are 10 people.
The module has been taught exceptionally poorly and as a result none of us can see ourselves passing the module. The exam is in two days time.
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How important is seeing the face of the instructor?
So, I am yet to make up my mind on which is a superior mode of teaching in flipped classroom videos:
Khan academy type model where you see slides or a digital drawing board and only listen to the ...
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How to adopt flipped classroom strategies without student complaints?
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 ...
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Can a person who doesn't like to talk much still become a good lecturer?
Can a person who doesn't like to talk much still become a good lecturer/academician? Do you have any experience like this or know anyone like this?
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What to do about fellow student that hogs lecture time with many questions
I am in a master's program, and one of my peers in the program is in two classes with me. He is a nice person, but he tends to ask a lot of questions in lectures; both of which are very large, and ...
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How to balance lecture participation and not being considered a show-off?
I am a student in a rather small (20-40 students) lecture. This lecture is mandatory for the students of this subject in this semester. In the course of the lecture the professor regularly asks ...
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What are the health impacts of standing / sitting while lecturing?
I often find myself lecturing for 7 hours in one day. This question is not about how to reduce my hours, it is about making healthy choices with my existing constraints.
I am lecturing to different ...
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Using a graphics tablet to support recorded lectures?
My lectures (mathematics) are delivered in a theatre with full projection facilities, and my lectures are given as PDF slides. But I often need to explain something not covered in enough detail on a ...
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How to keep one's focus during discussions, meetings and lectures
I noticed that I have more and more serious problems keeping focused, and despite my efforts to fix it the problem is just getting worse over time.
When I'm in a research-related discussion with ...
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What makes a didactically effective lecture? [closed]
I have made the experience that even the most excellent academics are often didactically mediocre lecturers. I also watched some of last years Nobel lectures and realised many laureates are actually ...
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Why have lectures in the information age?
The primary method of instruction at most colleges is lecturing, where the professor delivers and explains a set of well-established knowledge to the students.
However, there are drawbacks to this: ...
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Relation of lecture mandatory attendance and lecture quality
My university recently made a direction that lectures attendance is mandatory. Now my question is, are there any studies that compare mandatory and not mandatory lectures quality? The university is ...
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A lecturer is hard to understand, what to do?
I have a lecturer at university that I find very hard to understand. My lectures are taught in English, but my lecturer is of East Asian origin, and English is not his first language.
I find the ...
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Lecturing (teaching methods) for a diverse group of students with weak science backgrounds
I just started teaching three courses at small medical training college: anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, and microbiology. Most of the students have a weak background in the sciences, and ...
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How to improve myself as a lecturer?
I am a new lecturer in the field of Computer Science. I got my MSc and I would like to go for a PhD. However, I would like to improve my teaching methods and way of thinking before I pursue this goal. ...
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