ABSTRACT
In this chapter the authors wish to encourage lecturers to use a variety of mechanisms to enrich the learning experience of their students in the lecture theatre. Sitting, listening and taking notes for hour after hour is very difficult to do (remember how it feels at the end of a full day of lectures when you attend a conference). We are not suggesting that a lecture should be scripted like a James Bond film, but it should contain different movements, it should include different presentation modalities and it should appeal to the senses in as many ways as possible.There are a number of simple ways that the stimulus can be varied from the presentation point of view. Simply splitting a lecture into context, content and closure as described in Chapter 3 is already one way of modulating the overall experience. In order to increase attention span, engage the students and encourage them to think, it is also recommended that the lecturer considers breaking the lecture into short sub-sections of ‘lecturer input’ and interspersing this with student activities that provide opportunities for active learning and interaction.
