The rear view Looking back through history, the printing press revolutionised the emerging university in medieval times, replacing an academic person who read out rare manuscripts, or the “reader,” with a more expository style of lecture that summarised key philosophical questions for further discussion, assuming that people had done some […]
Welcome to Day 5. Today we will be looking at the role of lecture recordings and how we can use them as a tool for enhancing teaching. Many of you will already be using Echo360 recordings in your courses. These recordings are usually automatically capturing anything you display on the […]
Welcome to Day 4 One of the tools often used when giving presentations and lectures is the use of the large screen on which we display media and PowerPoint (ppt) presentations. In today’s session, we are going to focus on maximising the impact of PowerPoint during lectures, and how we […]
We all know how popular the Ted Talks are, as an example of how the one way lecture as a form of teaching can be well received – providing it is interesting and engaging. Ted Talks are by nature very much a performance, with entertaining and engaging presenters. We can’t […]
A question to start Activity: What was the best lecture experience you ever had, as an audience member? It may have been a course you took in your own studies, a public lecture, a presentation by a colleague, or a conference keynote. What aspects of the presenter’s technique, speech, or […]
In the first post of this course, we’ll look at some of the trends, discussions, and issues facing lectures in contemporary university teaching. The lecture is dead? For the past several years, there have been a range of think-pieces written about the role of the lecture in a new, technological […]