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Waldeck, Jennifer H.; Weimer, Maryellen – Communication Education, 2017
College instructors use lecture and its current counterpoint--active learning--widely and often rely on both strategies, but the question of which best promotes student learning has become a debate that ignores the fact that learning can result from both. Students still listen to and learn from lectures. They pass exams, obtain degrees, and…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Teaching Methods, Higher Education, College Instruction
Inman, Johanna; Myers, Simuelle – IDEA Center, Inc., 2018
Recent trends in higher education, including online learning and the flipped classroom, have led to a large increase in the creation and use of video lectures in college teaching. Although the literature suggests that video lectures can be an essential pedagogical tool in 21st-century teaching, research is still emerging regarding best practices…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Higher Education, Blended Learning, Lecture Method
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McLaren, Helen J.; Kenny, Paul L. – Australian Universities' Review, 2015
Teaching academics are under pressure to move away from traditional lecture-tutorial teaching modes to less traditional forms. Such pressures are in addition to changes to funding arrangements and other developments that increasingly oblige universities to operate as businesses. The flow-on effects for teachers are increased student:staff ratios,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Lecture Method, Higher Education
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Moodie, Gavin – History of Education, 2014
This article considers the effects on universities of Gutenberg's invention of printing. It considers four major effects: the gradual displacement of Latin as the language of scholarship with vernacular languages, the expansion and eventual opening of libraries, major changes to curriculum, and major changes to pedagogy including lectures.…
Descriptors: Educational History, Higher Education, Universities, Language of Instruction
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Hodgson, Yvonne; Varsavsky, Cristina; Matthews, Kelly E. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2014
This study reports on science student perceptions of their skills (scientific knowledge, oral communication, scientific writing, quantitative skills, teamwork and ethical thinking) as they approach graduation. The focus is on which teaching activities and assessment tasks over the whole programme of study students thought utilised each of the six…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Sciences
Brinkley, Alan; El-Fakahany, Esam; Dessants, Betty; Flamm, Michael; Forcey, Charles B., Jr.; Ouellett, Mathew L.; Rothschild, Eric – University of Chicago Press, 2011
Those who teach college students have extensive training in their disciplines, but unlike their counterparts at the high school or elementary school level, they often have surprisingly little instruction in the craft of teaching itself. "The Chicago Handbook for Teachers, Second Edition", is an extraordinarily helpful guide for anyone facing the…
Descriptors: Reference Materials, Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Higher Education
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Pillay, A. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2010
Through a review of the literature, this article argues that it is imperative that lecturers at institutions of higher education not just embrace multiliteracy for teaching and learning, but accept, incorporate and affirm the many literacies that students bring with them to the lecture room. Multiliteracy in the lecture room supplements…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Lecture Method
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McGarr, Oliver – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2009
This paper examines the possible influence of podcasting on the traditional lecture in higher education. Firstly, it explores some of the benefits and limitations of the lecture as one of the dominant forms of teaching in higher education. The review then moves to explore the emergence of podcasting in education and the purpose of its use, before…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Study Guides, Lecture Method, Literature Reviews
Ramaswami, Rama – Campus Technology, 2009
Digital lecture capture and broadcast solutions have been around for only about 10 years, but are poised for healthy growth. Frost & Sullivan research analysts estimate that the market (which amounts to $25 million currently) will quadruple by 2013. It's still dominated by a few key players, however: Sonic Foundry holds a hefty 40 percent-plus…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Lecture Method, Vendors, Costs
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Fairchild, Halford H. – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1984
Describes two strategies for the teaching of Black psychology: (1) the organization of undergraduate and graduate seminars in Black psychology; and (2) the incorporation of Black psychology into the general undergraduate lecture course, especially in introductory level courses. (CMG)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Lecture Method, Psychology
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deWinstanley, Patricia Ann; Bjork, Robert A. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2002
Outlines some basic components of effective learning processing and then suggests tasks or ways of presenting information during lecture that can induce such processing by students. (EV)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Processes
Chaudron, Craig; Richards, Jack C. – 1985
The study examined the ways in which different categories of discourse marker affect how well foreign college students understand university lectures, and specifically, the effects of macro markers (those indicating overall organization) and micro markers (functioning as fillers, indicating links between sentences). Four versions of an American…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, College Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Students
Woods, John D. – Improving College and University Teaching, 1983
The linking of each lecture's purpose to its form and structure will help faculty organize instruction. The classical model of instruction is best to transmit information, the problem-centered model creates interest, and the sequential approach promotes understanding. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Educational Objectives, Higher Education, Humanistic Education
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Shore, Bruce M.; And Others – Higher Education, 1990
Two surveys of faculty researchers contradict the belief that university research and teaching have a direct relationship with each other. The most common form of instruction was lecture, a method that does not directly involve the learner in the process of producing new knowledge. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Higher Education, Lecture Method
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Nantz, Karen S.; Lundgren, Terry D. – College Teaching, 1998
A survey of one college's faculty (n=101) concerning classroom use of technology reveals limited exploitation of its potential, and suggests a different approach to faculty development in technology that provides a more substantial infrastructure, rewards, and a variety of techniques to keep both faculty and students interested. (MSE)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Educational Technology, Faculty Development
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