Don't lecture me – rethinking the way college students learn
Don't lecture me is a three-part documentary series by Emily Hanford from American Radioworks, focusing on better ways to learn – outside the traditional lecture theatre.
You can listen online, download mp3s or read a transcript on the American Radioworks website.
1. Rethinking the way college students are taught
Lecturing was invented as a way to share information in a time before books were widely available. Now, there are better approaches.
2. The problem with lecturing
The traditional college lecture has never been a good way to learn. This is the story of how some physics professors figured out the lecture wasn't working.
3. Inventing a new kind of college
In the past 30 years, scientists have discovered a lot about how people learn. But traditional universities are slow to change their ways. So a group of educators in Minnesota decided to build a brand new college.
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American Radioworks is the national documentary unit of American Public Media. It creates documentaries, series projects, podcasts and online content for the public radio system and the Internet.
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