Lectures Aren't Just Boring, They're Ineffective, Too, Study Finds

sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Are your lectures droning on? Change it up every 10 minutes with more active teaching techniques and more students will succeed, researchers say. A new study finds that undergraduate students in classes with traditional stand-and-deliver lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students in classes that use more stimulating, so-called active learning methods."

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Re:Study finds that topics requiring lecture...

[CanHasDIY]

...are 1.5 times harder than topics that can be easily turned in to fun activities and games. Voila!

IMO, if it's not something that you can "turn into" a practical application, it's probably not something I want to waste my time "learning."

I will offer the caveat of things like theoretical physics, which have no useful application (useful as in, "can do real world stuff with," not "something that further enhances our understanding of things").