YES. If you only listen to the lecture, and perhaps re-read the notes, you won't learn much. But that's never how a lecture-based course was meant to work! In

YES. If you only listen to the lecture, and perhaps re-read the notes, you won't learn much. But that's never how a lecture-based course was meant to work! In my undergrad, it was made clear to us that the learning happens when you do the worksheets, and the discussions around them in the workshops / exercise classes / tutorials / presentations. But the lectures are still there for a reason. The history of education is littered with the skulls of the failures of pure "discovery learning", sometimes rebranded as "active learning". And apart from a small elite of people who were going to be top of the class whatever you do (short of Vonnegut-style drastic measures), it does. not. work. The "traditional" method, practiced properly, contains lots of opportunities for practice (which is, naturally, "active") in some sense. It just recognizes that learners sometimes need to be told what to practice, first.