Oliver Ferguson, also an English professor emeritus, remembers observing a Blackburn lecture to all the freshman-composition students.
Participants received no instructions or study regarding social media or mobile phone usage prior to observing a 15-min video lecture.
I observed all lecture meetings for the plant systematics course (30 meeting dates of 90 minutes each).
Near the city of Aswan, Nielsen observed a candidate who enlisted a regional historian to lecture voters on their supposed tribal past.
For practical reasons it was only possible to observe three lectures (and therefore three interviews and focus groups), which raises the possibility of various biases; this may not have captured the full range of narrative categories that a larger sample of lectures would have demonstrated, and the sampling of lecturers may well have favoured those who use narratives more often than average.
Learner expectations have also changed in the current, fast-paced, technological environment: In the past, trainees would read about unfamiliar disease processes, sit passively in a lecture, and observe skilled clinicians prior to practicing on a patient.
"Almost everybody who is a writer these days," he observes, "gets, at some point, a lecture on the necessity of being 'on' Twitter and Facebook.
In addition using the convenience approach the author needed to observe lectures between February and June 2013 in order to collect data in time for analysis and write up by the project deadline.
As the teams prepared for the second half, Touré could be observed giving a long lecture to his right-back.
So, to bring this to a conclusion, as one commentator and editor of Foucault observes: 'the lectures not only provided the promised historical celebration of militant thought but also exposed the limitations and immense dangers of that style of thought' (Gordon, 2002: xxii).
