Lectures are such an effective teaching method because they exploit evolved human psychology to improve learning

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1261-1265

  Charlton, Bruce G ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ATTENTION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPEECH; STUDENT; TEACHING; TECHNOLOGY;

HUMANS; LEARNING; PSYCHOLOGY; TEACHING;

EID: 33748953876     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.08.001     Document Type: Editorial

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