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French, Sarah; Kennedy, Gregor – Teaching in Higher Education, 2017
This paper discusses the role of the lecture in contemporary higher education. Moving beyond the polarised perspectives that characterise recent debates on the subject, it considers both the potential problems and possible pedagogical, practical and social benefits of the lecture as a mode of teaching and learning. Through an examination of…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Relevance (Education), Higher Education, Teaching Methods
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Boshier, Roger; Huang, Yan – Teaching in Higher Education, 2008
Staff and students grumble about how research allegedly obscures the merits of exemplary teaching at universities. Modern efforts to move teaching from the periphery to the centre of the university were marked by books on the scholarship of teaching (SoT). Starting in the 1990s it became possible for academic staff to cite their SoT in claims for…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Independent Study, Teacher Attitudes