Yes, Wieman pulls no punches in that PNAS article. Maryellen Weimer
provided a commentary
<http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/more-evidence-that-active-learning-trumps-lecturing/>
on it a few months ago on her Teaching Professor blog. The need to move
SoTL beyond always comparing using the "traditional lecture" (or continuous
exposition <https://derekbruff.org/?p=3126> as Derek Bruff defines it) as
the control in pedagogical research was also discussed in an editorial
<http://www.lifescied.org/content/14/4/ed1.full> last year in CBE-LSE.

Cheers

Neil

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On 1 September 2016 at 11:58, Sibley, James Edward <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi
>
> Carl Wieman had a recent article in the Proceedings of the National
> Academy of Science…comparing lecture to active learning…no
> surprises….active learning won by a lot
>
> What was fun was some of the language he used…
>
> Lecturing is pedagogical malpractice
>
> "lectures—the pedagogical equivalent of bloodletting”
>
> "If a new antibiotic is being tested for effectiveness, its effectiveness
> at curing patients is compared with the best current antibiotics and not
> with treatment by bloodletting."
>
> Basically making the point of if we are going to compare new teaching
> techniques to something, perhaps lectures aren't the best anymore.
>
> His commentary is here:
> http://www.pnas.org/content/111/23/8319.long
>
> And the commentary is on this article:
> http://www.pnas.org/content/111/23/8410.short
>
>
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