Whats the Use of Lectures?: First U.S. Edition of the Classic Work on Lecturing

Topics include taking notes, using handouts, practicing different formats and styles, obtaining feedback, overcoming difficulties, evaluating the lecture, and testing alternative methods when lecturing is not adequate.

Spis treści:
Part One: What Objectives Can Lectures Achieve?.
1. Evidence of What Lectures Achieve.
Part Two: What Factors Affect the Acquisition of Information?.
2. Factors Influencing Memory.
3. Factors Affecting Students′ Attention.
4. Motivating Students.
Part Three: What Lecture Techniques Apply These Factors Most Effectively?.
5. Lecture Organization.
6. Making a Point.
7. Reasons and Explanations.
8. Aids to Comprehending a Point.
9. Note Taking in Lectures.
10. The Purpose, Preparation, and Use of Handouts.
11. Lecture Styles.
12. Ways of Obtaining Feedback.
13. Evaluation of Lectures.
14. Overcoming Common Difficulties.
15. Lectures for the Promotion of Thought.
16. Lectures to Teach Attitudes.
Part Four: Alternatives When Lecturing Is Inadequate.
17. The Lecture Method Alone Is Rarely Adequate.
18. Teaching Methods to Use with Lectures.
19. Some Combinations of Teaching Methods.
Part Five: Preparation for the Use of Lectures.
20. Thinking the Lecture Through.
21. Writing the Notes.
22. Lecturing for the First Time.
23. Conclusion.

Nota biograficzna:
DONALD A. BLIGH was a pioneer in university staff development when he joined London University′s Teaching Methods Unit. It was there, in 1971, that he wrote the best–selling What′s the Use of Lectures? He was later elected as Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education. He was the first professor and director of continuing education at the University of Dundee in the United Kingdom and is now honorary research fellow in computer science at Exeter University.

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Topics include taking notes, using handouts, pra cticing different formats and styles, obtaining feedback, overcoming difficulties, evaluating the lecture, and testing alternative methods when lecturing is not adequate.