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Interative Teaching?
For example, even the most lucid and brilliant exposition of a subject by a teacher in a lecture, may result in
limited learning if the students' brains do not do the necessary work to process it. There are several possible
causes why students' learning may fall short of expectations in such a situation. They may,
 not understand a crucial concept partway into the lecture and so what follows is unintelligible,
 be missing prior information or not have a good understanding of what went before, so the conceptual
structures on which the lecture is based are absent,
 lack the interest, motivation, or desire to expend the mental effort to follow the presentation, understand
the arguments, make sense of the positions, and validate the inferences.