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You were told wrong. A great book is not the same thing as an interactive lecture with a competent and engaging instructor. They are complimentary, but in no wa
by kspacewalk2 7y ago
You were told wrong. A great book is not the same thing as an interactive lecture with a competent and engaging instructor. They are complimentary, but in no way does one obviate the need for the other.
- saurik 7y agoA lecture is almost by definition not "interactive", and certainly if you have so many students that you are using facial recognition and iClickers to handle attendance the entire premise that you would react to individuals is infeasible.
- ketzu 7y agoOnly if you assume you react to all individuals at the same time constantly. In our lectures we try to make them interactive, but the degree of interactiveness varies based on the level and number of attendants. Questions are asked and answered in the 200 people lectures as well, and they improve the lectures for a lot of people.
- rolph 7y agothere was a time as in when charles darwin was a freshman, when the lecturer had the only copy of a particular book because they wrote it and bound it themselves, the lecture was how that book was disseminated contemporary lectures in my past have always been about advancing knowledge that is not published in secondary literature in to correct concepts that have been modified.