Article: Instructional Strategies
Can the Lecture Be Saved?
Chronicle of Higher Education
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Claire Major discusses her approach to interactive lectures, which exists along a continuum of active learning with three easy-to-remember touchpoints: bookends, overlays, and interleaves.
Do you feel guilty when you lecture? Perhaps you’re afraid that you’re shortchanging students. That, instead, you should be flipping your classroom and getting “active” through group exercises. But really, aren’t there times when you just want to tell your students what they need to know?
Fear no more. Claire Major is here to tell you that lecturing is fine. In fact, it’s often crucial to a successful class. The key, says Major, a professor of higher education administration at the University of Alabama, is to make it interactive.