Reasons for including pre-class learning by teachers

Ÿ To keep students focused on the general themes of the course.

Ÿ To focus class-learning at a higher level (e.g., analysis, than just fact learning).

Ÿ To enable students to follow the discussion better.

Ÿ To help students to reinforce the ideas in the lesson.

Ÿ To enable students to find it easier to understand complicated concepts.

Ÿ To help and deepen learning in a limited time frame.

Ÿ To test students’ motivation and engage them in the course.

Ÿ To make sure it is possible to do some interactive assignments during class (e.g., discuss in pairs or groups)

Ÿ To save time from needless lecturing (if the material is easily understandable) and to allocate more time for (creative) discussion.

Ÿ Overall, to optimise the learning process.