In my review of the material surrounding the individualized instruction method of Audio-Tutorial (A-T), I must say that I am not impressed. The data that reported on the results of comparisons between the A-T and conventional teaching methods seem to be stretched and distorted to show that the A-T method is sometimes favored. From what I can tell, it looks like the A-T approach is too much work for the instructor and too much time and work for the student. There is a general session EVERY week, plus small group sessions EVERY week (at least once per week), AND the individual work sessions at least once per week. It seems to me that as a student, I'd rather sit through the potentially boring lecture to receive my material as opposed to having to make the time to attend all of the required sessions under the A-T method. Furthermore, as an instructor, I have to prepare for more sessions that the traditional lecture approach to teaching. Too much work!
I like the idea of supplementing a conventional instruction approach with A-T components, but, I do not favor an entire course being delivered in this method.
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I agree that the AT method does seem to require much more time preparation. Then trying to incorporate that into an online version, seems like a very tough sell.
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