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“Lectures are passive. They seldom get students to do anything, beyond listening and perhaps taking notes. Lectures fail to foster deep learning and student engagement. The purpose of the lecture is called into question.” 
https://theconversation.com/covid-killed-the-on-campus-lecture-but-will-unis-raise-it-from-the-dead-152971 …
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I've felt lectures were a waste of time — so do most I know tbh.. We still attended b/c otherwise there was no way to get the material. But I was just a glorified photocopier. Sat in a room w/ 100+ students scribbling as fast as we could what was being rushed on a blackboard.
That being said Dr Deborah Longbottoms lecturers in Organic Chemistry were engaging and incredible. She used so many different active techniques that made every lecture worthwhile & even recorded them for us. I wish it was the norm.
