I admit, I love teaching and I do like giving (almost) traditional lectures. But is this still an option in present day?

Donald Clark pleas to abandon lectures once and for all:

“I spent some time going through dozens of papers and meta-studies showing that the lecture is a largely disastrous pedagogic technique, devoid of formative assessment, diagnosis of student understanding, actual teaching or inspiration.”

But there are also arguments in defense of the (not so old fashioned) lecture as Sally Feldman describes in her piece titled The lecture: more than the sum of the parts.

Face-to-face teaching may be vital for studio or laboratory work, for practical exercises and for learning techniques. But what’s the value in being physically present for a lecture? One benefit was cited by an online respondent to Gibbs’ piece. “Lectures can also be entertaining and like mass gatherings of individuals at gigs and football matches can generate community spirit,” wrote Eduard Du Courseau. “In a similar vein, music can be more efficiently distributed on a CD player but is more uplifting if deafening at a gig.”