Lectures have been an incredibly ineffective way to learn forever. Faculty continue to lecture, and we continue to build lecture-style classrooms, further enshrining this poor approach. Active learning works, and yet both faculty and students dislike it. Faculty like to talk and pretend they're teaching, and students like to listen and pretend they're learning.
All to say—I wish it was this easy to change the academy. But it's not.
All to say—I wish it was this easy to change the academy. But it's not.