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 *Neil Haave, PhD* Associate Professor, Biology <https://www.augustana.ualberta.ca/disciplines/biology/> Managing Editor, *CELT <http://celt.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/CELT/index>* Vice-President, AIBA <http://www2.mtroyal.ca/~tnickle/AIBA/AIBA_website/AIBA.html> Faculty Affiliate, CTL <https://www.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/about-ctl/people/faculty-affiliates> Co-chair, AIBA/ACURIT 2017 LOC <http://www.augustana.ualberta.ca/ACURIT/call_for_abstracts.html> McCalla Professor <http://uofa.ualberta.ca/centre-for-teaching-and-learning/awards/mccalla-professorships> University of Alberta, Augustana Faculty Rm C155, Science Wing, Classroom Building, Augustana Campus 4901 - 46 Avenue, Camrose, AB, CANADA T4V 2R3 email <[log in to unmask]> | Augustana dossier <http://www.augustana.ualberta.ca/profs/nhaave/> | Google+ <https://www.google.com/+NeilHaave> | blog <http://activelylearning2teach.blogspot.ca/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/nhaave> | LinkedIn <https://ca.linkedin.com/in/neilhaave> "*We do not learn from experience . . . we learn from reflecting on experience*" - John Dewey On 1 September 2016 at 11:58, Sibley, James Edward <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 > > > > *Jim Sibley * > > *Director * > http://cis.apsc.ubc.ca/ > Faculty of Applied Science > University of British Columbia > > CEME 1214-6250 Applied Science Lane > Vancouver, BC Canada > V6T 1Z4 > Phone 604.822.9241 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > > Check out my book Getting Started with Team–Based Learning > <http://www.learntbl.ca> > > Check out my TBL website at www.learntbl.ca > > > > > > © Copyright 2015, Jim Sibley, All rights reserved The information > contained in this e-mail message and any attachments (collectively > "message") is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the > recipient (or recipients) named above. If the reader of this message is > not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received > this message in error and that any review, use, distribution, or copying of > this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, > please notify the sender immediately by e-mail, and delete the message. > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click here. > <https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1> > > Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on > the UBC IT website. > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the TEAMLEARNING-L list, please click the following link: https://lists.ubc.ca/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=TEAMLEARNING-L&A=1 Further information about the UBC Mailing Lists service can be found on the UBC IT website.