Lecturing

Definition[edit | edit source]

• In the context of this wiki, this entry refers to lecturing in higher education (1 teacher plus many students).

Lecturing is not just content delivery:

• • The lecture has to preparred according some simple or more complicated instructional design method, e.g. backwards design. This includes activities outside the lecture hall (homework, labs, ..)
  • There are different appropriate instructional design models such as direct instruction and nine events of instruction.

We also should make a distinction between lecturing as "telling" (i.e. as pedagogic method of presentation) to be combined with other methods and lecturing as global pedagogic strategy and that includes exhibits, demonstrations, question/response interactions, small student activities, etc.

See also:

• Technology-enhanced classroom (for ICT use in usually smaller classrooms)

Instructional design models for lecturing[edit | edit source]

sorry for the moment we don't present any specific models for lecturing in lecture halls, but some of the links below do !

Technology[edit | edit source]

See also: Computer-integrated_classroom. There exist tools to make lecturing with many students more interactive.

• Presentation software (all sorts, e.g. powerpoint)
• Interactive demonstrations with software (e.g. simulations)
• Voting and question management systems (via student's notebooks and mobile devices)
• Overlay techniques, e.g. with a whiteboard or a tablet PC
  • Teacher uses "half-baked" teaching materials and adds things
  • Teacher can blend in student contributions (votes, questions, etc.)

Links[edit | edit source]

• Notes on Lecturing, by Phil Race, University of Durham

• Lecturing Effectively - Chapter 7 from Florida State University Guide to Teaching and Learning Practices.

• Twenty terrible reasons for lecturing

• Lecturing by Crag McInnis.

• Lecturing] Vanderbilt Center for Teaching has a few links

• Delivering a Lecture by Barbara Gross Davis

• Some lecturing heuristics by Patrick H. Winston (DSchneider did assist to PHW's lectures more than 20 years ago and liked them)

References[edit | edit source]

• Gross Davis, Barbara (1993). Tools for Teaching, Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco.

• Bligh, Donald A. (2000) What's the Use of Lectures? (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-7879-5162-5