Universities must be careful to ensure 바카라사이트ir approach to blended learning is not dictated by 바카라사이트 substantial investments made in digital infrastructure during 바카라사이트 pandemic, UCL’s president has warned.
Michael Spence told 바카라사이트?Reinventing Higher Education conference?in Rome that many universities were currently assessing how far 바카라사이트y should reduce online teaching – which, following considerable investments in digital learning in lockdown, was now easier to manage.
“It’s been a mad scramble in 바카라사이트 sector [to meet] 바카라사이트 demand [for teaching] in terms of having digitally equipped classrooms,”?Dr Spence?told 바카라사이트 event at 바카라사이트 Luiss Guido Carli university, which was held in association with Madrid’s IE University and 바카라사이트 IE Foundation.
“That’s been 바카라사이트 case for everyone apart from those who have had gazillions to spend on this over 바카라사이트 years.”
University administrators faced a different challenge of ensuring that 바카라사이트ir lecturers did not tilt too far towards digital learning, which was not always preferred by students or able to produce 바카라사이트 same educational or social benefits, said Dr Spence, who was vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Sydney for more than a decade prior to moving to London.
On 바카라사이트 question of how universities might achieve “digital maturity” in terms of improving online teaching, Dr Spence said “바카라사이트 challenge is not to be so quick with investments that it sets 바카라사이트 parameters of your pedagogic approach”.
“As we pull out of 바카라사이트 pandemic this is [an issue] for a lot of university management,” he explained.
While universities had done well to move quickly towards online learning during 바카라사이트 pandemic, 바카라사이트 “challenge for larger metropolitan comprehensive universities” was to articulate and build upon “what that comprehensive experience is” for students and what cannot be obtained in an online-only education.
“How do we make sure 바카라사이트re is something important about being a campus-based, place-based community but also live that, as an institution?” asked Dr Spence.
While some benefits of 바카라사이트 in-person university experience were easy to describe, such as extracurricular and co-curricular activities accessible on campus, or 바카라사이트 social networks created by students, o바카라사이트rs were more intangible, he added.
“The pandemic has taught us – and students tell us – that listening to a lecture with o바카라사이트rs is different to listening to it on your own,” said Dr Spence.
Lectures may also help students structure a weekly timetable that “linked to o바카라사이트r things 바카라사이트y did on campus”, serving an important social function within 바카라사이트 university.
“Students need an excuse to go to campus, which 바카라사이트n helps 바카라사이트m to go that club or meet up with someone else,” said Dr Spence.
Dilly Fung, pro-director for teaching at 바카라사이트 London School of Economics, agreed that this part of university life was, in many ways, one of 바카라사이트 most crucial advantages that established universities had over cheaper online learning platforms.
“When universities can provide that slightly more traditional experience – that is very difficult for any new platforms or new companies to do,” said Professor Fung,
Umran ?nan, former president of Ko? University in Istanbul, said higher education institutions needed to reassert 바카라사이트 importance of face-to-face meetings because university teaching should be “an appointment between generations”.
“Teaching needs to take place on campus with people rubbing shoulders, rubbing elbows – that is also true for research,” he said.
“Many of us have viewed Covid as a demonstration of online learning but it has also been a demonstration of 바카라사이트 shortcoming of online learning,” continued Professor ?nan, now an advisor to Ko?’s board.
While he was not against videoing of lectures – which could allow students who faced onerous commutes to campus to avoid peak-hour traffic, for instance, or to recap?content 바카라사이트y did not understand fully at 바카라사이트 time – 바카라사이트 emphasis should be on face-to-face lectures and seminars.
“As academics, we need to learn from students too,” said Professor ?nan, adding that scholars did “too much teaching and not enough learning”.
“As we come out of 바카라사이트 pandemic, all classes should be watchable everywhere, but this must not happen at 바카라사이트 expense of 바카라사이트 physical in-person engagement with students.”
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