European Workshop: Strategies for Better Lectures : June 4, 2014 in Brussels
12 May 2014
Strategies for Better Lectures - a workshop for European Academic Practitioners on June 4, 2014 in Brussels
Date: June 4, 2014
Start Time: 10:30 am
Location/venue: EUROCITIES, Square de Meeûs 1, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium
This workshop from the Higher Education Academy will highlight strategies to give better lectures, offer examples of best practice, and provide a forum in which university teachers who are considering more innovative approaches can explore their ideas.
It is open to all practitioners working in European universities and other HE contexts. It will be delivered by the Higher Education Academy’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) team and will thus be particularly relevant to those working within these disciplines.
A key strategy to be covered is the flipped lecture (also known as the inverted classroom) which largely removes the passive transmission element from the formal lecture session in favour of assigning the time to guided student activities. In order to illustrate this approach delegates will be required to complete some work in advance of the workshop.
Provisional Programme
1030 Arrival and refreshments
1100 Introduction to the day
1105 Traditional lectures – good and bad points
1130 Discussion of alternative approaches
1200 The flipped lecture
1300 Lunch
1400 The flipped lecture – part 2
1500 Practical exercise
1600 Discussion
1630 Close
For more information, please contact Dr Paul Yates (paul.yates (at) heacademy.ac.uk).
