Study @ Switch from plain lecturing to project-based learning is necessary
Lectures bore students and push up the failure rate
Some people have had the good fortune to attend an interesting lecture, others have lived to recount a shark attack. Largely, though, we have dozed through our lectures in college, and passed out none the wiser.
A decade-long study that monitored 550 lecturers across 25 universities in Canada and the US concluded that lectures, whether delivered as a monologue or punctuated with slides and laser dots on smart boards, are not very effective.
The study focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) courses, and found that lecturing was the chief method of teaching in undergraduate courses. The main problem with lectures is that they do not involve students although studentcentric teaching has been shown to improve scores.
In fact, “students in classes with traditional lecturing were 1.5 times more likely to fail than were students in classes with active learning.”
So, why do colleges and teachers persist with lecturing when the talk is all about educational reform? The traditional design of classrooms is partly to blame. “Big amphitheatres with huge numbers of students can be barriers to instructional innovation.” Ironically, the researchers report that when teachers have flexible classroom layouts and fewer students they tend to fall back to lecturing. Sheer laziness, perhaps.
A switch from plain lecturing to project-based learning is necessary to ensure students not only understand their subjects better but also appreciate them more. “They are not as scared of it, and they engage more easily with it.”
Source | Times of India | 15th April 2018
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