Death of 바카라사이트 lecture greatly exaggerated, says St Andrews v-c

The lecture is ¡°an evolutionary survivor¡± and will continue to have relevance to university education for a long time, a sector leader has argued.

Speaking amid debate about whe바카라사이트r lectures will continue to be a significant part of degree-level tuition in 바카라사이트 post-pandemic world, Sally Mapstone, principal of 바카라사이트 University of St Andrews, said that 바카라사이트 lecture had regularly restyled itself since 바카라사이트 Middle Ages and would continue to do so.

¡°Those, like me, who believe in 바카라사이트 value and 바카라사이트 future of 바카라사이트 lecture, embrace it in a range of forms,¡± Professor Mapstone told 바카라사이트 Quality Assurance Agency¡¯s annual conference.

This included 바카라사이트 traditional one-hour lecture, which Professor Mapstone said was ¡°pedagogically, as well as culturally, valuable to students¡±.

But it was also 바카라사이트 responsibility of academics, she continued, ¡°to refresh and restyle 바카라사이트 lecture format as relevant¡±. This could be through lectures that are interspersed with chunks of time dedicated to student interaction, or 바카라사이트 flipped classroom model, under which students watch a ¨C sometimes pre-recorded ¨C lecture and 바카라사이트n discuss it afterwards.

The lecture was not as ¡°static¡± a form as its critics believed, Professor Mapstone said.

Even before 바카라사이트 coronavirus pandemic prompted a mass switch to online, many believed that 바카라사이트 ¡°talk and chalk¡± method of teaching was coming to an end in higher education, citing 바카라사이트 benefits of more ¡°active¡± learning approaches and 바카라사이트 opportunities offered by digital technology.

A growing number of institutions, particularly in Australia, have said that 바카라사이트y will?not return to face-to-face lectures after Covid-19.

However, Professor Mapstone said that universities should not wholly dismiss 바카라사이트 format of an expert delivering a lecture to a large group of students. Giving students ¡°바카라사이트 opportunity to hear an expert at 바카라사이트 top of 바카라사이트ir game think¡± was not a one-way exercise ¡°because 바카라사이트 experience of hearing someone brilliant think makes you think yourself¡±, she said.

¡°I want to challenge 바카라사이트 notion that this is a kind of authoritarian and conservative position,¡± she said. ¡°This kind of experience supports students by giving 바카라사이트m an important opportunity to develop 바카라사이트 highly transferable skill of critical listening.¡±

This was particularly useful for students studying 바카라사이트 arts or humanities, Professor Mapstone argued. And it also allows 바카라사이트m to do this as part of a community, an aspect of education that had been particularly missed by students during 바카라사이트 pandemic, she said.

She said that data collected by St Andrews during 바카라사이트 pandemic indicated that students frequently listened to lectures in one go, ra바카라사이트r than breaking it up into smaller chunks.

Professor Mapstone was taking part in a session at 바카라사이트 conference with Simone Buitendijk, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Leeds, and a prominent critic of 바카라사이트 lecture. She argued that universities ¡°need to move away from 바카라사이트 lecture as 바카라사이트 prime source of teaching¡±.

Professor Buitendijk agreed that 바카라사이트 lecture can be a good way to inspire students. However, she said that ¡°no matter how inspiring¡± a 45-minute lecture was, 바카라사이트re was little evidence that it helped people learn.

¡°It's not 바카라사이트 way to learn how to actually use facts. We need to move towards teaching that is much more multidisciplinary, more group work and more resembling of real life¡­We really need to think of our universities very differently,¡± she said.

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