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Don't Lecture Me! Science Finds Traditional Lectures Fail Students
Don't Lecture Me! Science Finds Traditional Lectures Fail Students
Continue reading the Original Blog PostDid you ever fall asleep in class during a lecture? Don't feel bad, it's been happening since the lecture was invented. Look at the 14th-century painting of a lecture above. That guy in blue with the sweet headband is totally napping.
But maybe it wasn't entirely your fault.
A recent study has shown that undergraduate students subjected to traditional lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students taught by more active learning methods.
“Universities were founded in Western Europe...