Outstanding Lecture

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

A recent Outstanding Lecture has led Arnold Kling to make this recommendation:

My impression is that the number of professors who teach in lecture format is much, much larger than the number of really effective lecturers. I think that the best way to deal with this is to take the typical professor out of the lecture hall and instead substitute videos of the quality of Rosling’s lecture.

What was this outstanding lecture? It was Hans Rosling’s latest TED Talk on economic development.

You may recognize some of the beautiful animated graphs from Has the world become a better place?, one of his earlier works through his GapMinder organization, which I mentioned a few months ago.

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