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Newnham, Rewi, M. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1997
Introduces a simple student-centered activity that can effectively complement a traditional lecture by encouraging group discussion and reflection. Students orally review the lecture in groups and submit summaries to the lecturer that are ultimately compiled into a course review. Discusses the benefits of this practice and students' responses.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Foreign Countries, Geography
Platt, Chris – Teaching in Higher Education, 2002
In a time of high demand for qualified nurses, mass education has become the norm. This is a necessary constraint within which we have to learn to function. However, the need to educate large numbers of nurses may lead to a one-sided unimaginative reliance on the traditional lecture method, creating a learning environment that inadvertently limits…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Nursing Education, Cooperative Learning, Self Directed Groups