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Lecture Strategies
Lectures are the way most instructors today learned in classes. However, with today’s students, lecturing does not hold their attention for very long, even though they are a means of conveying information to students. The following sites will help you learn to use your lectures differently and/or in combination with other techniques.
For all resources on Lecture Strategies, click here.
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Source |
Description |
Designing Smart Lectures |
Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota |
This is an online workshop for designing smart lectures, presenting characteristics of good lectures and good lecturers. |
Interactive Lectures |
Starting Point, Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College |
This resource describes how to make lectures more interactive and provides some examples for doing so. |
Twenty Ways to Make Lectures More Participatory
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Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning,
Harvard University |
The article provides 20 different suggestions for making one's lecture more participatory and interesting to students. |
Effective Ways To Present New Information
Orally To Fit Differences In Learning Styles |
Center for Teaching and Learning,
University of North Carolina - Charlotte |
This article identifies several different strategies that you can use in the classroom to break up your lecture and enhance student retention of knowledge |
Strategies for Improving Comprehension of Lectures |
Center for Teaching, Learning & Assessment,
Southern Oregon University |
This is a PowerPoint presentation that offers some guidelines for making lectures more interesting. |
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