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Why lectures?

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A recent article on the BBC News website asks why lectures aren't obsolete. It seems strange that although research points to their ineffectiveness as a method of learning, lectures still figure predominantly in higher education. Too often, the pace and direction of learning continue to be dictated by the sage on the stage.

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or not to lecture

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In my previous post I wrote that even though research shows lectures to be less than effective in helping students to learn, they still persist in higher education. The key question is: What can replace the lecture? Worse still, they may decide not to attend lectures at all. Most students will switch off.

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This time it's personal

Learning with e's

That means that when you learn, you do it differently to everyone else. If you are a student you may be sat in the same classroom or lecture hall as many other students, and listening to the same content, but you interpret it differently to everyone else. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. Unported License.

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A growing divide?

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The classroom is no longer the unique centre of learning, based on information delivery through a lecture." Traditionally, learning has been situated in classrooms or lecture halls, where the presence of an expert or specialist in a subject takes to the stage and delivers knowledge directly to the assembled students.

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Learners as producers

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For the longest time teachers and lecturers have held the monopoly on the production of academic content. That gives them personal ownership of their learning. They place their own individual stamp on the content they create, and then share it within their personal learning environment and across their peer network.

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7 ways to support learner-teacher interaction

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At the recent ALT-C Conference in Nottingham (which I couldn''t attend) a very good question was asked by Renee Filius on Twitter: How can we enable true two-way interaction between lecturers and students that is not too time consuming? This is a perennial question, one that often exercises the minds of many higher education lecturers.

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Power sharing

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For the lecturer, this means voluntarily relinquishing their traditional position as the sole arbiter of ''truth'' in the classroom, to embrace the position of co-learner. Students now bring their own devices into the traditional learning environment, creating their own personal networks and learning environments.