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Monday, 23 April 2012

Lectures were once useful, but now ... lectures are unnecessary

Posted on 01:15 by Unknown
"Criticism of the lecture as a teaching method existed long before students obtained the ability to watch lectures online. More than 200 years ago, Samuel Johnson wrote: Lectures were once useful; but now, when all can read and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. In the 1950s, the historian Henry Commager observed: Not only do we rely far too much on lectures, we rely on lectures to do far more than it is possible or desirable for them to do."


Lectures and the hidden curriculum. (2012) Medical Education, 46: 529. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.2012.04282.x



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