I am properly thrilled by the fact that this week for #mscedc there's an old-fashioned LECTURE
— Helen Murphy (@lemurph) March 13, 2017
— Helen Murphy (@lemurph) March 13, 2017
It’s true, I was really chuffed there was a lecture.
It’s not because of nostalgia – I was never that keen on lectures when I was an undergraduate. It’s not about how I learn best – I pick up ideas best through reading and synthesising ideas, and I think I’m generally all right at self-directing my learning.
Instead, there’s something in the combination of passivity and activity in listening to a lecture for a change. Especially because the lecture slides were illustrative rather than instructive. It was just a change of pace, and therein one of the benefits of multimodality.