Monitoring who attends class is pointless unless it counts towards students’ grades
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Let’s not abandon the humble lecture quite yet
Lectures are being abandoned in favour of "flipped" classes, with lots of short videos and quizzes. But the lecture format has merits that shouldn't be overlooked.
Will the University of Adelaide’s lecture phase-out be a flop?
The University of Adelaide is planning to completely phase out lectures. Is this change good for learning?
How ‘digital natives’ are killing the ‘sage on the stage’
Lectures and lecturers will have to adapt to modern times in order to stay relevant.
Let’s ban PowerPoint in lectures – it makes students more stupid and professors more boring
Reading bullet points off a screen doesn't teach anyone anything.
Should all university lectures be automatically recorded?
If all lectures are caught on camera, it will be a step change for higher education.
Let me edutain you! Why university lecturers need to play to their audience
In his anthemic Let me entertain you, Robbie Williams urges his audience to “come and sing a different song”. University lecturers could take a lesson or two from Stoke-on-Trent’s favourite singer-songwriter…
Online vs face-to-face learning: why can’t we have both?
Ever since the invention of the printed word, academics have been arguing about the proper place of technology in teaching. On one side are those who I’ll call the traditionalists who insist on the primacy…
Facebook fight: why we banned laptops, iPads and smartphones in lectures
I recently invited a top management consultant to give a guest lecture at my course at Copenhagen Business School. I went to sit among the students during the talk. They had been instructed to take notes…
Are lectures a good way to learn?
Imagine a future where university enrolment paperwork is accompanied by the statement: Warning: lectures may stunt your academic performance and increase risk of failure. Researchers from the United States…
To lecture or not to lecture: is technology reinventing the campus?
With technology changing the landscape of higher education, The Conversation is running a series “Re-imagining the Campus” on the future of campus learning. Here, Tom Cochrane outlines how technology is…
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