دانلود کتاب The Art of Lecturing: A Practical Guide to Successful University Lectures and Business Presentations

Even after buying the paperback version of the book I find it a waste of money. The book actually should have been entitled "The Lecturing I": it is not much more than a self-presentation of the author. It contains a lot of photos of the author lecturing in front of the large audience and constantly it reminds you of large audiences the author is often lecturing to and how good he is now, though being very young.

There are basically just such ideas and conclusions that I arrived to after attending few conference sessions and teaching at a university for a year, like "understand the topic properly", "be honest - if you don't know the answer, say so directly", "don't hide your mistakes", "simplify unimportant issues", "connect with the audience" etc. About the 21st century audience, the guideline is something like "shock them, they are used to be entertained", "be exceptional and unique so that they remember your lecture", that's all. And about the modern technologies, just "don't misuse the slides and power point presentations", "put only minimal info on one slide so that you don't end up just reading the slides".

I had to force myself to finish the book, it was so boring, the info so sparse and always repeating over and over. The content I could imagine in a private diary of a teacher but I don't find it worth the book. I was very disappointed.