Don't Lecture Me

Emily Hanford at American Public Media writes about how collages are rethinking teaching, specifically by coming up with other methods of teaching other then lecturing. A choice quote from Dr. Joe Redish from UM:

"With modern technology, if all there is is lectures, we don't need faculty to do it," Redish says. "Get 'em to do it once, put it on the Web, and fire the faculty."

Emily also wrote a short (7min) report on NPR titled "Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool", and she notes

"But lecturing has never been an effective teaching technique and now that information is everywhere, some say it's a waste of time. Indeed, physicists have the data to prove it."