{"id":182,"date":"2021-09-25T13:02:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T11:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/?p=182"},"modified":"2021-09-25T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T11:16:00","slug":"an-incomplete-list-of-lectures-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/an-incomplete-list-of-lectures-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"An incomplete list of lectures&#8217; functions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the switch to online education 18 months ago, it&#8217;s become clear that on-campus lectures used to serve a whole range of functions &#8211; not all of which can be served by online classes. We designed around that for our online and half-half courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that we&#8217;re expecting to be able to get back to fully on-campus for all our courses again, if we want to, people are asking: do we want to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not so sure. At least not for large scale lectures &#8211; as I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delta.tudelft.nl\/article\/column-welcome-back-classroom\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.delta.tudelft.nl\/article\/column-welcome-back-classroom\">wrote<\/a> in my Delta column at the start of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In any case, it seems good to explicitly think about what physical lectures <em>do<\/em>, so that we can think critically about how we want to achieve those things going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OK, here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>One-way, teacher -&gt; students stuff:<ul><li>Information delivery. Similar to what books do. The part many feel that <a href=\"http:\/\/entropysite.oxy.edu\/morrison.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/entropysite.oxy.edu\/morrison.html\">Gutenberg<\/a> made obsolete and the thing that the &#8216;flipped classroom&#8217; transfers to asynchronous reading\/watching by students themselves. Multiple categories:<ul><li>Content<\/li><li>Logistics \/ Practical matters<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Motivation, by an enthusiastic teacher\/speaker, by showing cool examples, by physical demonstrations, etc.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Teacher &lt;-&gt; Students (interaction is obviously low in traditional lecture halls)<ul><li>Quick checks on understanding (i.e. polls and multiple choice questions)<\/li><li>Opportunity for asking questions\/discussion, both during and before or after the lecture. Becomes more scary and more difficult as student numbers increase.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Students -&gt; Teacher<ul><li>Signal perceived value of the lectures by showing up or not.<\/li><li>Motivation for the teacher. Speaking to a hall of students is something to get out of bed for. It&#8217;s why many like &#8216;hybrid&#8217;, because at least they have <em>some<\/em> students there to see and make them feel like they&#8217;re doing it for actual people.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Students &lt;-&gt; Students<ul><li>Social gathering, seeing and interacting with peers and friends, during the lecture, before, and after.<\/li><li>Discussing course content and materials, helping each other out, bot in terms of figuring out difficult topics, and answering each other&#8217;s questions about logistics: When is this due again? Wait, what is the assignment, exactly?<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>For students individually<ul><li>Structure to the day, a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Knowing a teacher is coming to a room, and knowing other students are going, is more social pressure\/motivation than an online session nobody will see you at and that you can always watch the recording of.<\/li><li>Being seen, feeling like you exist to others.<\/li><li>Feedback on how well you&#8217;re doing, in the form of seeing other peope either understanding everything or struggling as much as you, or more.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>For the teacher individually (I feel this category gets ignored a lot, as is Students -&gt; Teacher, see above)<ul><li>Feeling cool. You&#8217;re on stage, giving a show, after all. Or at least, you&#8217;re delivering profound and valuable knowledge to the unknowing. Good for the ego.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Provides a ready made size for chunking your content. Far too large, but still. It&#8217;s a template. That&#8217;s nice.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the switch to online education 18 months ago, it&#8217;s become clear that on-campus lectures used to serve a whole range of functions &#8211; not all of which can be served by online classes. We designed around that for our online and half-half courses. Now that we&#8217;re expecting to be able to get back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/an-incomplete-list-of-lectures-functions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An incomplete list of lectures&#8217; functions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13,6],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-education","tag-online-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobvanvliet.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}