Failure Lecturing Textbooks 
eSchool News
APRIL 2, 2025
The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. They were designed to stretch my limits, to force me to engage deeply with the material rather than skim through a textbook for quick answers.
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2016
Before redesign, CSCC had three levels of remedial math courses, with an average drop-failure-withdraw rate as high as 70 percent. Without the traditional reliance on lectures, students are free to go through these modules at their own pace, skimming quickly through easier concepts and spending adequate time on tougher ones.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 7, 2019
As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials. I first came into the open education field as an educator frustrated with many traditional textbooks in my discipline.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. My First Big Risk: Flipping the Script When I became a teacher, I promised myself that I wouldn’t teach from the textbook and bore my students with presentations. Many of my students don’t have this mindset.
Edsurge
JULY 13, 2019
As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. My flipped classroom is not just about having students watch videos at home and do textbook work in class. When I was in grad school, I had a teacher who carried a stack of name cards around the room. That class was a nightmare for me.
Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 9, 2018
For example, when MIT changed its freshman physics class from a model of hundreds of students listening passively to lectures in an auditorium to a model of smaller, interactive classes that emphasized hands-on, collaborative learning, it found that attendance increased and that the failure rate dropped more than 50 percent.
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