Discipline: education and teaching
A problem for lecturers is to know whether they are presenting their material in a sufficiently interesting and understandable fashion and at a pace suitable for student comprehension. New and occasional lecturers tend to be nervous, feel they must put across everything they know and assume that students can comprehend more in a given time than is realistic. Thus they often proceed too fast and try to cover too much material, although they are usually enthusiastic and make their subject interesting More established teachers, while generally aware of students' capabilities, may be bored with the material they are presenting for the nth time, particularly at basic level, and some fail to update sufficiently frequently.