Lecturers contribute a bare minimum if all they do is repeat what's in the text or the slides. The situation is worse if you have a group of students (as I believe I do) who are independent learners and can absorb all the basic references without much help.
What, then, ought lecturers do to add value? Here are some ideas, by no means exhaustive:
What, then, ought lecturers do to add value? Here are some ideas, by no means exhaustive:
Give a fresh slant to what's in the textbooks - either give a new perspective or just challenge everything the writer says
Lecture on a related sub-topic (one not in the generic handouts)
Facilitate a discussion or a case-study (thus taking the class away from recall-mode to application-mode)
Get the students to present
Show a video
Facilitate a project which takes them out of the classroom (kinda like a case-study on steroids)
What else?
Adding value nowadays usually involves creating new value. Whatever this is, it's probably not repeating what's already available.
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could do we away with lecture altogether?
we probably should, but i guess must walk b4 run :)
It would be interesting to give new values like that if the syllabus permits it...
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