Sometimes the lecture room is not conducive to learning; a boring, colourless room is not necessarily an inspiring place for stretching the mind. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology two lecture rooms have been refitted to allow students to sit around small tables with screens showing animated simulations to help them visualise concepts.
But new learning methods can come at a high financial cost compared to the relatively cheap way of being taught face-to-face by an academic. The real issue according to Professor Dan Butin, founding dean of the school of education and social policy at Merrimack College in Massachusetts, is that "Academics put thousands of hours of work into their books and much less time into thinking about the effectiveness of their teaching style." But he says "the lecture has survived because research, not teaching, determines the success of a university and its academics."
So if research quality is a measure of a university's success and money is tight, then the lecture could be here for a little longer. How does that make you feel? How would you improve your lectures?
词汇表 nugget of knowledge 有价值的知识
method 方式,方法
at our fingertips 唾手可得的,近在咫尺的
textbook 教科书
absorb 理解,掌握(知识、想法等)
effective 有效的
peer-to-peer 同学间交流的,互相分享(知识)的
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