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Direct linkColin Loughlin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Large-class university lectures remain commonplace, yet their educational value is contested. While the majority of criticism contrasts transmissive lectures with active learning pedagogies, this case study evaluates a lecture series on its intrinsic qualities, looking at staff and student understandings of the lecture's contribution to academic…
Descriptors: Attendance, Large Group Instruction, Lecture Method, Outcomes of Education
Loughlin, Colin; Lindberg-Sand, Åsa – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2023
This case study of large-class teaching at a UK university focuses on the place of large-scale lectures in academics' approaches to teaching, their "use" by students in their studies, and their relationship to institutional quality assurance policies. The case is a second-year module comprised of 180 students, and it includes two-hour…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Large Group Instruction, Hidden Curriculum, Constructivism (Learning)
Wood, Astrid – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2020
This paper explores the benefits and drawbacks of technology-enhanced learning (TEL) to engage undergraduate students in geography modules at Newcastle University. I consider the efficacy of "student response systems" (hereafter SRS, also known as audience response systems, clickers or personal response systems) in large lectures by…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Technology Uses in Education, Audience Response Systems, Large Group Instruction
Roberts, David – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2018
This article is concerned with student engagement and understanding in large group teaching in Higher Education (HE). Specifically, it is concerned with the application of Multimedia Learning (MML) methods in Politics, History, International Relations, Sociology, Social Work, and Business and Economics teaching that privilege the use of images to…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Learner Engagement, Large Group Instruction, Multimedia Instruction
Hejmadi, Momna V. – Bioscience Education e-Journal, 2007
This paper describes the development and evaluation of a blended learning resource in the biosciences, created by combining online learning with formal face-face lectures and supported by formative assessments. In order to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching large classes with mixed student cohorts, teaching was delivered through…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Formative Evaluation, Online Courses, Workshops
Azzawi, May; Dawson, Maureen M. – Bioscience Education e-Journal, 2007
The effectiveness of lecture-integrated and web-supported case studies in supporting a large and academically diverse group of undergraduate students was evaluated in the present study. Case studies and resource (web)-based learning were incorporated as two complementary interactive learning strategies into the traditional curriculum. A truncated…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Science Achievement, Learning Strategies, Prior Learning
