Didactic method

Not to be confused with didacticism.

A didactic method (Greek: didáskein, to teach; lore of teaching) is a teaching method that follows a consistent scientific approach or educational style to engage the student’s mind. The didactic method of instruction is often contrasted with dialectics and the Socratic method; the term can also be used to refer to a specific didactic method, as for instance constructivist didactics.

Didactics is the theory of teaching and, in a wider sense, the theory and practical application of teaching and learning. In demarcation from "Mathetics" (the science of learning), didactics refers only to the science of teaching.

This theory might be contrasted with Open learning, in which people can learn by themselves, in an unstructured manner, on topics of interest.