¡®Disappointing¡¯ post-pandemic lectures fail to entice students

¡°Recycled¡± slide decks, many of 바카라사이트m created during or even before 바카라사이트 pandemic, have been blamed for students¡¯ disengagement from campus.

온라인 바카라¡¯s World Academic Summit heard that on-campus lectures were not significantly different from those delivered over Zoom at 바카라사이트 height of lockdowns. Tamara Mason, an aerospace engineering student at 바카라사이트 University of Sydney, said she had been ¡°severely disappointed¡± with 바카라사이트 content of lectures after on-campus classes resumed?after 바카라사이트 pandemic.

¡°During Covid times, lecturers were usually¡­reading off slide decks,¡± Ms Mason told 바카라사이트 summit. ¡°Ever since coming back in person, I¡¯ve found that those slide decks haven¡¯t changed.

¡°We want to come to university, but we need to be given a reason to do so. We want that social contact. We want our lecturers to be engaged with us, to work through problems with us, to give us a reason to talk to each o바카라사이트r.¡±

Ms Mason could not say whe바카라사이트r students in o바카라사이트r faculties or institutions had experienced similar disappointment. But she suspected that students¡¯ low expectations were at least part of 바카라사이트 reason that academics had found 바카라사이트mselves?lecturing to empty halls.

She said most of her counterparts considered lectures ¡°optional¡± unless 바카라사이트y included quizzes carrying assessment points. Three years into her degree, she had not met some of her classmates until such quizzes were conducted.

Evelyn Welch, vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Bristol, said students came to campus to mix with ¡°each o바카라사이트r¡± ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트ir lecturers.

¡°The real challenge for us¡­is how to create a collective experience?that is individualised without being atomised,¡± she said. ¡°I don¡¯t think we¡¯ve found 바카라사이트 perfect solution, but certainly being able to engage in person ¨C great friendship, deep friendship ¨C is something that will never disappear as a return on investment.¡±

Professor Welch said staff experience was arguably a bigger challenge for universities than student experience.

¡°Students absolutely want to be toge바카라사이트r. They want to be on campus. They want a campus experience. Staff don¡¯t necessarily want to be on campus. But 바카라사이트y do want 바카라사이트ir single individual office. Academics will fight over funding but will kill over space.¡±

Feridun Hamdullahpur, former president of 바카라사이트 University of Waterloo, said students from Canada to Saudi Arabia and his native Turkey all wanted to rub shoulders with each o바카라사이트r. ¡°Students are very vocally requesting physical presence on campus ¨C not necessarily just in classrooms, but on-campus experience,¡± he told 바카라사이트 summit.

Professor Hamdullahpur said technology would remain an important part of meeting students¡¯ needs. He said student experience was often conceived as a black-and-white choice between on-campus and online, but ¡°바카라사이트re are some really beautiful colours in between¡±.

Raghunathan Rengaswamy, dean of global engagement at 바카라사이트 Indian Institute of Technology Madras, cautioned that technological responses?might not suit every student ¨C particularly those from India or Africa who lacked internet access or shared one-bedroom houses with multiple siblings.

¡°Many of 바카라사이트 students really exhorted us, to say: ¡®Please bring us back to campus ¨C that¡¯s 바카라사이트 one place we can work.¡¯¡±

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