Is it possible to do a complete subject change? Just recently i was inspired to do research on a topic that is personal to me, yet it is a major problem in today's education and society.
If i chose a new topic. It would be be about how majority of today's college lectures have become almost useless. Much of the research i found was out of pure curiosity. Also, this is extremely personal to me because this is true in other classes that i currently attend, and i would love to learn more about this subject more than anything i have ever thought of.
In today's current research, studies have found that majority of professors lectures have become almost useless to succeeding in class. Much of the research found has concluded that lectures only consist of what is in the book that is assigned to a classroom and nothing else related to the outside world. A class might be lectured on an assigned book for a whole semester, yet nothing outside of the book in similar subjects are discussed about. Also, teaching methods of "repeating" after the book or shortening of books into powerpoints, printed out packets, or slide shows renders lectures completely pointless. Students have more of a chance to read the books themselves than to listen a shortened version of a chapter.
Lectures do not teach the concept of a chapters. Instead it only covers the material in shortened versions. Teachers are currently needing to revise their teaching methods, and more research is being done to prove that teachers are caring less about how they teach. Students lose the ability to grasp the concept that is in front of their face because a professor fails to explain how a concept actually works. What is even worse is that professors understand so much of what they are talking about and students do not understand a word they are saying, or the concept the professor is describing from the book.
"College lectures, are we really learning the concepts we are paying for, or are professors repeating just the books?"
"Professors repeating assigned course books in lectures, are students really grasping concepts on their own?"
Having trouble of grasping concepts from professors that lecture only shortened book versions, and learn more from just the book?"
"Don't understand your college lectures because they are right out of the book? Then why should paying students require to attend lectures?"
Current research states that college lectures don't help grasp concepts of course studies at all instead of the books, why?
Here is a link to what the real problems are and what is being to fix them:
Andrew, it sounds like you've got a gripe to make. By your own statement you admit the topic is personal to you, and that makes for a poor topic choice for a research project. Too often a student's own feelings invade their project and their research, and then they end up trying to prove and support what they "believe" to be true. Doesn't work well for our purposes.
ReplyDeleteForget this topic, but you might be able to focus it on the changes taking place in higher education in the last decade and try to account for their effectiveness and their success in helping students achieve their goals.
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