[lbo-talk] How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study?

[Bill White]

I have not taught for many years, and I mostly taught computing science
courses.  I found that three pages of notes would get me through a
50 minute class.  But my teaching style was very slow.  I always
tried to bring the lecture through the students, by asking them
pointed questions about what might come next in the exposition.
It took forever, but the ones who were serious, I think, really
learned the material.

It's kind of off topic, but one of the things I learned early on
is that I could teach much faster than they could listen.

On 2011-01-26, at 14:15 , Chris Brooke wrote:


> On 26/01/2011 18:22, "Chuck Grimes" <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> I've got a question for people who teach. If you give a lecture for
>> about an hour, how many pages would be in the transcript?
> 
> When I lecture to undergraduates, and have a full text in front of me, it's
> c. 5,600 words, which I print out over c. 25 pages of British A4 paper,
> double-spaced in a large font (14 point) so I can easily read it from the
> lectern. That would take about 50 minutes -- here in Cambridge, l'm supposed
> to start lecturing at 5 minutes past the hour, and stop 5 minutes before the
> hour, so students can get to wherever they are going next in good time.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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