It is well known that the traditional didactic lecture places students in a very passive role. Often they were only required to listen to what the lecturer was saying and copy down anything that was...
Although the benefits of active learning in higher education are now widely accepted, many students, having been spoon-fed throughout their secondary education, seem reluctant to adapt to the change...
About Traditional lectures consist predominantly of the transmission of information to a generally passive student audience. This is achieved predominantly using verbal forms of communication supp...
Lecturing dates back to mediaeval times and the founding of Europe’s earliest universities. Initially, lectures amounted to little more than a ‘lecturer’ standing at the front and reading a book to...
An online classroom is essentially a virtual classroom which enables the delivery of synchronous events online. They are used to enable students studying at a distance (using a laptop or tablet, or ...
Although questioning is usually associated with assessment it can also be very effective at stimulating learning, and is probably the simplest and most flexible approach to increasing student input ...
Traditional ‘chalk and talk’ lectures can undoubtedly provide an efficient mechanism for transferring important information to students. However, thinking time and effort are required to interpret a...
If, as is often claimed, a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words might an attention grabbing mid-lecture demonstration be worth? Certainly lecture demonstrations are popular both with st...
Renato Lombardo Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italy Challenge and goal The Biological Sciences course ...
Natasa Brouwer Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Challenge and goal Traditional lectures have been a common teaching method for centuries and are sti...
Andrea Lombardi Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Italy Challenge and goal Challenge The composition of student cohorts c...
Anne Conibear Faculty of Technical Chemistry, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Challenge and goal To raise awareness and promote discussion and application of interactive, cons...
Katalin Várnagy Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Debrecen, Hungary Challenge and goal One form of knowledge transfer is the lecture, in which the lecturer impar...
Franc Perdih, Krištof Kranjc* University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Večna pot 113, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; * e-mail: kristof.kranjc@fkkt.uni-lj.si ...