The first assumption is that student need knowledge and skills from the university they enrol. If so, what is the best way to impart knowledge and skills, to teach or to lecture? Are they the same and which does what to a student?
Teaching is a general term including lecturing and teaching during the practiical sessions, and lecturing is a narrow academc activity just presenting a lecture on the specific topic.
Teaching also included lecturing, training, nurturing or inspiring activities. Traditional teaching is a practice of teacher centered learning. It means teacher delivery teaching activities base on teachers assumption of expected learning outcomes. In Hong Kong, we are shifting to students centered learning. It is expected that every students has different needs of learning.
I am not sure that I agree with the way in which teaching is used as a global term for educational strategies. Lecturing is something which is quite different to what goes on within a classroom, there should and needs to be a clear separation between the different foci.
Traditional Lecturing may be seen as a non interactive forum for sharing perceptions, views and understanding. Learning at the feet of an expert if you like. Whereas teaching is building opportunties for learning to take place with a structure - be it teacher/ learner / subject centred formal or informal- the same cannot be said for lecturing.
Lectures do not necessarily have to be non-interactive! I did some work on how to improve lectures and their design, which resulted in a few publications. I use educational patterns for sharing this knowledge and making it explicit. I wonder what other educators thinks about this approach, so please let me know!
PS: this is ongoing work and more patterns will be published soon. One paper focusses especially on improving interactivity. If you're interested, let me know and I'll send you a draft version of it.
Conference Paper Towards a Pattern Language for Lecture Design: An inventory ...
Yes I agree that lectures don't have to be passive. My personal view is that interaction happens in lots of different ways and is quiteoften dependent on the styles which people use and feel comfortable with , as well as perhaps the nature of the subject.
I shall read your paper with interest!
My work is looking at the skills as well as knowledge which you need to teach law and having an understadning of different methods of delivery is really helpful.
Many Universities are adopting the so called "Activity-Led-Learning. With the ALL Model, learning is enhanced through "guided" activities in which students learn at their own time before and after lectures or tutorials. So this enables a learner to do an activity before and after the lesson, which is designed to meet the learning outcomes and enhance competence based learning.
Whilst there is merit in the flipped classroom, there is a real concern that linking learning solely to competences means that the understanding explored is narrow and limited : it also means that for the lecturer perhaps the role is more controlled but also becomes more restricted.
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