lectures in the blended learning era

1. Making your lecture materials
digestible & engaging
Jordan Napier – Staff Development Lead
Welcome!
Introduce yourself in the chat box.
How are you today?

2. Ways of working…
• Informal
• Ask questions in the chat box
• Keep your mic muted when you’re not talking to
the group
• Enjoy!

3. By the end of this session, you will be able to:
• Discuss the role of the lecture in modern day medical
schools
• Consider different approaches to making lecture content
thought provoking and engaging

4. Session outline for today:
• What’s the point of
lectures in med ed?
• How can we make them
as effective as possible?

5. ‘Lectures, like all
methods of teaching,
have limitations.
They can be boring
and, worse, useless’
Brown & Manogue, 2001
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12098394/

6. A lecture’s
journey through
time…

7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecture

9. https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-see-everyone-on-microsoft-teams/

10. https://faculty.londondeanery.ac.uk/e-learning/improve-your-lecturing/why-lecture

11. Blooms Taxonomy (1956)
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/

13. Tip 1:
Have clear learning outcomes and
share these with the learner

14. https://learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk/learningx/2020/06/24/3-what-is-the-abc-model/

15. https://learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk/learningx/2020/06/24/3-what-is-the-abc-model/

17. What are the limitations of a lecture?

18. BlighDA.What'stheuseoflectures?SanFrancisco:Jossey-Bass,2000

19. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND

20. Tip 2:
Remember attention spans!
Chunk it up. 10 mins of talking
max…

21. Lecture-based
activities:
Pause & reflect
Quizzes
Incomplete slides
Incomplete
diagrams

23. Tip 3:
Ask your learners to do
something…

24. Ingredients for presenting lecture materials online:

25. Take home messages:
Have clear learning
outcomes and share
these with the
learner
01
Remember
attention spans!
Chunk it up. 10 mins
of talking max…
02
Ask your learners to
do something…
03

26. By the end of this session, you will be able to:
• Discuss the role of the lecture in modern day medical
schools
• Consider different approaches to making lecture content
thought provoking and engaging

27. References/further reading:
• Bligh DA. What's the use of lectures? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000.
• Bloom, B. S. (1956). Bloom’s taxonomy. (adapted diagram from:
https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/)
• Brown G, Manogue M. AMEE medical education guide No 22: refreshing lecturing: a guide for
lecturers. Medical Teacher 2001;23:231-44.BMJ 2003;326:437-40
• Learning X - https://learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk/learningx/2020/06/24/3-what-is-the-abc-
model/
• https://faculty.londondeanery.ac.uk/e-learning/improve-your-lecturing/why-lecture