Face to-face lectures are no longer appropriate in the digital age - a debate
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Face-to-face lectures are no longer
appropriate in the digital age
Peter Bryant
Head of Learning Technology and Innovation
London School of Economics
@peterbryantHE
‘Our learning institutions are acting as if the world
has not suddenly, irrevocably, cataclysmically,
epistemically changed – and changed precisely in
the area of learning” Davidson and Goldberg 2009
1The nature of knowledge and
learning has changed in the
digital age
Two2The practices of teaching have
changed in the digital age
…for many of the smartest students, it’s fashionable to try
to get an A without going to any lectures—meaning that the
cream of the crop is beginning to boycott the basic model of
pedagogy.’ (Tapscott and Williams 2010)
Four
Lectures squander the power of the crowd
4 Lectures squander the power of
the crowd
‘The best potentials of the crowd are squandered by a desire to build something that makes sense’ (Morris and Stommel 2015)