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> Lecture delivery is not anywhere close to 100% of teaching a university class. Absolutely true. > Lectures have to change over time, both because you can do
by wtracy 6y ago
> Lecture delivery is not anywhere close to 100% of teaching a university class.
Absolutely true.
> Lectures have to change over time, both because you can do better with practice and because the material and real world change.
This is obviously going to be true for vocation-focused classes, but am I wrong in thinking that this is going to vary from field to field? Once you nail down your Math 101 lectures, do you really need to change them?
Also, this is not a real argument, but I have seen universities where lectures were given by a professor, and Q&A office hours were provided by a TA. I imagine that some universities are thinking that they can have a professor write a lesson plan and record lectures, and then the class can be run in perpetuity by a team of grad students. (Cue laugh track.)
- bachmeier 6y ago> Once you nail down your Math 101 lectures, do you really need to change them? This is one of the cases where you could (assuming the students don't change much). I teach macroeconomics. So far in my career some of the bigger events have included the bursting of the 90s tech bubble, 9/11, the Great Recession/financial crisis, the Greek debt crisis, Brexit, the election of Trump, and the pandemic. When I started teaching 20 years ago, the profession had settled on talking about managing long-term economic growth and viewed business cycles as being of secondary importance.