ABSTRACT
Lecturing is… “Lecturing: it may be a word that has lost some of its relevance in education. It carries negative connotations of ‘being lectured at’ as in ‘he or she gave him or her a good lecturing’. This has, to an extent, devalued ‘lecturing’ as the best word to describe working to facilitate learning within a large group. ‘Engagement’ of the audience with both deliverer and subject is something to which all ‘lecturers’ aspire. Finding ways of getting large-group students to interact with each other, to reflect and respond to the material as it is being delivered, is a challenge. As is presenting the traditional ‘hour’s worth’ of material in a way that fits with the students’ diminishing attention span created by exposure to other forms of information presentation (TV, video games, etc).„
