Sean Kelly wrote:
Some professors seem to think that lecturing about material that isn't presented anywhere else will force students to attend class. But in my experience it also creates a class that takes notes furiously rather than engaging the material and asking questions. Overall, I think it's a counterproductive strategy.
In my experience, the lack of a textbook for the material was mostly the result of the professor generating his own material and thinking the existing textbooks were all inadequate.
