Confessions of a Converted Lecturer

I learned of this presentation on the the POD listserv today made by Harvard professor, Eric Mazur's engaging talk entitled "Confessions of a Converted Lecturer" at University of Maryland on 11 November 2009  http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/

The abstract of the presentation is below:
"I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students' performance significantly."

That talk is available on UTube at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwslBPj8GgI and the abstract, slides, and references - sometimes obscured in the UTube talk - are at: http://tinyurl.com/ybc53jw as a 4 MB pdf.

Enjoy!