Academic Skills : Getting More out of Lectures

This is an interesting part of the text. It reveals that not only a lecture can be interesting but also what is behind it. Attending lectures could give students clues on how the instructor thinks, what are his or her expectations. Therefore, it allows you to perform in a specific course.
One way to be more effective in learning out of lectures is "clever" note taking. The text gives some suggestions in order to have an "active listening". That means that after a lecture, a student should be able to give mains arguments and some supporting ideas. I think that note taking will allow students to remember arguments for a certain period of time, to review them anytime and thus to perform in a course. A passive listening is not recommended because students would rarely remember more than 5% of a lecture if they don't have any notes.
I also agree that students should not act as "human tape recorders", writing the lecturer's speech word by word. In order to remember the main points of a lecture, students would better paraphrase them and combine non verbal signals that could be very useful to understand the instructor's point of view.
If anything is not understood, students should not feel embarassed. They should ask questions to clarify it.