Article: Instructional Strategies
Reframing the Lecture versus Active Learning Debate
Education in the Health Professions
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This is a short published article I wrote to lay out my argument pertaining to why lectures should not be abandoned and active learning is critical to student learning.
This article includes four key challenges regarding the "active learning versus lecture" debate. Issues presented address a better understanding of what is meant by "the lecture," a better understanding of the empirical studies comparing active learning to lecturing, a challenge to the claim that students do not learn well from the lecture, and that the comparison of active learning to lecturing is not an appropriate comparison.
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