Lecturing is often seen as a one-way transmission of information from teacher to students.  Interactive lectures include the concepts of active learning.  Lecturing becomes a two-way street in which the teacher focuses on key elements and requires students to do something beyond passive reception (listening).

• How to give interactive lectures : Helpful advice from Carleton U.
• Tips for Teachers – Participatory Lectures The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, provides this useful teaching document.
• Lecture Strategies That Work
• Eight Steps To Effective Lectures Links to the Ferris State U. Center for Teaching & Learning
• Giving Effective Lectures Links to the Grand Valley State U. Faculty teaching & Learning Center
• Preparing to Teach the Large Lecture Course (From the hard copy book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis; Jossey-Bass Publishers: San Francisco, 1993)
• Delivering Effective Lectures this is a JHPIEGO Strategy Paper