BBB #2: Lecturing=Bloodletting, so why are we still doing it?

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• Episode: BBB #2: Lecturing=Bloodletting, so why are we still doing it?
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• Duration: 01:18:23
• Published: 2017-09-03 22:43

There's clearly some gravity towards a lecture-based classroom structure, even though we now know that this is not the best way for students to learn.  Here we discuss what the sources of that inertia might be.

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Some material brought up during this discussion

Studies from Carl Wieman on passive vs. active learning

See also this interview with Wieman about that study

David Pengelly on overcoming the lecture-textbook trap