This article defending the effectiveness and value of the lecture in the classroom created quite a stir on the POD listserv. See what you think. “Lecture Me. Really” from The New York Times
This article presents an opinion very different from that in the article above. Consider both and see where you stand. Feel free to comment in the comment section of this post below. “The Learning Paradigm: The Heart of Course Transformation” from The Scholarly Teacher blog.
“Tests Are Not Enough” from NISOD’s Innovation Abstracts collection describes how to provide students with a variety of ways to demonstrate their learning and suggests how we as instructors can improve our instructional delivery. (If prompted, our user id is nmc.edu and our password is nisod310)