Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too, Study Finds 166
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Are your lectures droning on? Change it up every 10 minutes with more active teaching techniques and more students will succeed, researchers say. A new study finds that undergraduate students in classes with traditional stand-and-deliver lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students in classes that use more stimulating, so-called active learning methods."
Re:I've heard slashdot is behind the times... (Score:5, Funny)
It's a method for transferring words from the prof's page to the student's without passing through the brain of either.
I sure wish... (Score:2, Funny)
someone had told my Dad that.