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Increasing interactivity in lectures

Perhaps the only thing that e-learning has problems to replace from traditional education are lectures. Some people believe that lectures are the epitome of education, while others believe they are a relict. Still, the average student, throughout the human history, probably experienced much more boring and useless lectures than the exciting ones. The most important property of live lectures, in comparison with all other educational tools and methods as well as in comparison with lecture’s stepbrother – recorded lecture, is interactivity: the ability to ask and answer questions. The true interactivity is bidirectional: both the lecturer as well as the audience can, and should, ask and answer questions. The workshop will deal with questions like: why is there so little interactivity in live lectures? How to overcome students’ problems which prevent them from asking and answering questions? How to overcome teacher’s problems? Which other methods improve interactivity beside Q&A? How can information technology be used to improve interactivity of live lectures? Is there a way to make e-learning interactive? How to substitute or simulate interactivity in recorded lectures? The aim of the workshop is that each participant carries away at least one useful idea, method or tool which she or he can use immediately in their practice. The workshop itself will be conducted in a highly interactive manner leveraging most of the techniques and methods that will be discussed. It will use an equilibrium of traditional methods to foster interactivity as well as technical tools.

lectures ; interactivity

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