Smart Learning Design: How to increase the effectiveness of a frontal lecture?

Here are some strategies you can use to increase the effectiveness of a frontal lecture:

help students situate the topic you are about to address in relation to the course or macro theme
choose the most appropriate narrative structure: it can be deductive, inductive, thematic, temporal, or start with an example, problem, or question. In any case, the narrative structure, if well integrated with the learning outcomes of the lesson can promote understanding and offer additional critical value
propose many examples, taking care to highlight the link between concrete case and underlying theory
push for dual coding by presenting, where possible, text and images integrated with each other
articulate in segments by dividing, where possible, content into short subsets with a beginning and an end
give a lot of importance to the beginning and end of the lesson by devoting an initial moment to retrieving the necessary knowledge and a final one to reflecting on what has been learned

Below you can download an infographic that properly integrates text and images:

You can download it as a PDF from this link:

You can also find it in the Infographics folder along with all the other Infographics in the course.