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The purpose of this study was to consider the efficacy and popularity of "Virtual Lectures" (text-based, structured electronic courseware with information presented in manageable "chunks", interaction and multimedia) and "e-Lectures" (on-screen synchrony of PowerPoint slides and recorded voice) as alternatives to traditional lectures.
Transcribing the lecture into text also allows you to search the text, which is something you cannot do with the sound recording.
Similarly, Clayson and Haley (2012) reported that 68% of students believed they could attend to a lecture and text at the same time, yet students who texted received lower grades.
This different method of engagement with course material can have a positive impact on students for whom lecture and text is not the optimum learning path.
High expectations among MOOC learners compelled us to organize our classroom material meticulously and reduce our lectures to text that could be placed on a teleprompter and read.
For example, one professor spoke about psychopathology and another lectured on text comprehension.
Don't miss any information, most classes are a combination of lectures and text related materials, so missing class equates to missing half of the concepts!
"When I lectured at UCL, students would frequently talk or text their way through lectures.
In addition to lectures, supplemental texts, hospice and funeral home visits, Dobbins [ 27] employed a cine- education approach by using a film called 'Wit', to educate student nurses about death and dying.
The majority of participants in the Study group rated the e-learning module as being the most helpful mode for their study of leukaemia (compared with lectures, tutorials, texts and individual study), while students in the Control group rated the existing e-learning resources as being significantly less helpful.
