Empowering students to address social issues doesn’t require a classroom overhaul. Simple, everyday activities can be life-changing when integrated into traditional teaching.
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In-person lectures have been a staple of university learning for centuries. But they are going out of style in an age of TED Talks and Tiktoks.
Students in Adelaide have been protesting to keep face-to-face lectures. But many students today work or live far from campus – making old-school lectures tricky.
Note-taking on a laptop may be faster but handwriting engages the brain in a more active way than typing.
You’d think class sizes would be an important consideration for students when choosing a university, but universities don’t make that information public. They should.
Universities can best prepare students by teaching them in ways that reflect the realities of how professionals and the wider community now operate.
Some students may wonder why they bothered returning to campus. Others are struggling online. But lecturers who do engage students think deeply about how they do it, using all available tools.
About two-thirds of Australian universities won’t be offering on-campus lectures in 2021. But that’s not all the pandemic’s fault – it simply accelerated a shift away from the traditional format.
In response to the coronavirus pandemic, universities are using video for so much of their teaching. Some worry this will hurt student learning, but that’s not what we found.
In our law school, lecture attendance averaged just 38% of total enrolments across the semester.
Technology has disrupted the way universities offer courses, the types of skills we will need, and the duration for which we will need them. Here are three things universities must do to survive.
Conducting research and contributing to knowledge creation might be the only way for academics to sustain their jobs.
Students need to have an educational incentive not to skip class, rather than just being scare of Big Brother.
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.
The University of Adelaide is planning to completely phase out lectures. Is this change good for learning?
Lectures and lecturers will have to adapt to modern times in order to stay relevant.
Reading bullet points off a screen doesn’t teach anyone anything.
If all lectures are caught on camera, it will be a step change for higher education.
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…
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…
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