A number of educational studies now support the value of using multimedia to enhance lectures to increase student interest and knowledge in science (O'Day, 2007).
The supplementary material was used to enhance lecturing and the learning achievements were increased.
Some students, he concedes, clearly use the internet to enhance his lectures, looking up artwork he discusses to get a closer or different view, or taking notes.
The OMTT in Neuroscience was used by faculty to enhance their lectures in existing curricula.
Most of the students felt that voting improved their activity during lectures, enhanced their learning, and that it was easier to make questions during lectures than earlier.
The training consisted in didactic lectures enhanced with clinical demonstrations and role playing exercises.
The training consisted of didactic lectures enhanced with clinical demonstrations and role playing over a 3-day period.
The main pedagogical goal of a lecture is to convey information and explanations, and we think that this was achieved, as about 80% of the students felt that lectures enhanced their learning as compared with studying on their own.
More than 80% of the students felt that voting improved their learning, and most of them felt that it enhanced questioning during lectures, although some students disagreed on this latter point.
Because results from these studies have been mixed, we examined whether an EVS system could enhance a lecture's effect on educational outcomes.
I still perform those digitally-enhanced lectures, too; but I also have a hidden, an undercover role as a spiritual mentor for a generation of millennials, who want to eat at a spiritual buffet, not consume à la carte religion, and certainly not polish off what appear as the past-date morsels ordered up by their grandparents.
