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Re: [Phys-L] lectures vs --



On 2012, May 01, , at 15:49, Larry Smith wrote:

I believe research has shown lecture to be reasonably efficient for conveying information to very motivated learners in settings such as this.

Larry

On May 1, 2012, at 4:12 PM, <Aburr@aol.com> <Aburr@aol.com> wrote:


Recently posts concerning lecture vs other procedures have made their
appearance again.
I would appreciate comments on the following two observations.
There were something on the order of 600 presentations during the regular
sessions of the recent AAPT annual meeting. They were almost exclusively
poster or lecture presentations.
1. The number of poster presentations (a very small percentage of the
total number) has been decreasing.
2. Almost all of the remainder were lectures (even those made by persons
interested in physics educational research). If lectures are so bad, why
are they so popular?

Alex. F. Burr

Until recently the attendees are the ones who survived the lecture regime. As time progresses attendees will complain.


bc proposes another partly baked corollary to Larry's theorem.

p.s. posters are ideal for the deaf, but sighted e.g. bc who can, also, discuss w/ the adjacent poster [individually].