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>If the slides do not convey the material that is being taught, then the slides are useless.

No. that's the point. Slides have one purpose only - to help the student during the talk. Attempting to make them dual-purpose, namely....

>Students generally do refer to slides after lectures,

Is to end up with the worst of both worlds. If the lecturer wants to distribute notes or a transcript after the lecture, that'a what they should do.

> but the slides should also stand alone as a resource.

Nope

A lecturer should appreciate that it's impossible to absorb a complex topic during a lecture, and provide resources that later complement what they are saying.

> yes - just not in the for, of slides.



I agree with you on this point, but asking a lecturer to provide slides and notes creates a lot of work for them.

It's a difficult task to make one set to an adequate standard, so I was assuming you would use one set for both jobs (as seems to be the case in higher ed courses I'm familiar with).


The best courses I took were ones where the lecturer published lecture notes. That shows the professor actualy created lecture notes!

Andrew Ng's Machine Learning lecture notes are world famous.




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