Ray Kirby: Lectures are STILL Appropriate
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The document argues against replacing face-to-face lectures with digital lectures in three main points: 1. Pedagogically, face-to-face lectures allow for more interaction between the lecturer and students, enabling discussions, questions, and active learning. Digital lectures encourage passive consumption and remove this interactivity. 2. Culturally, prospective students and parents expect the university experience to include attending lectures as part of being a student. Removing face-to-face lectures could harm recruitment. 3. Practically, replacing lectures could make the university's key statistics look worse and increase student attrition rates if students do not engage with the digital replacements.
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Ray Kirby: Lectures are STILL Appropriate
- 1. Brunel University London “Face-to-face lectures are no longer appropriate in the digital age” The Case Against Ray Kirby Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering The Case Against 1
- 2. Brunel University London The Pedagogic Case Lectures should be based on interaction and should: • Engage • Inspire • Enable discussions • Develop confidence Lectures can • React to questions in real time • Change scope and aims depending on feedback • Encourage active learning • Respond quickly to SSLC and other issues raised by students 17 April 2015 The Pedagogic Case 2
- 3. Brunel University London The Pedagogic Case • Digital lectures: • Formal recordings encourage: • Dull, regulated, formal and boring delivery • Passive consumption by students • Remove the ability to interact • This is not new! • We have had the wonders of the moving image for many years. • OU lectures on TV are a classic: dry, dull delivery 17 April 2015 The Pedagogic Case 3
- 4. Brunel University London The Pragmatic Case Cultural • Prospective Students Expect to Attend Lectures • This is what we do at “University”, it is seen as a part of “being a student”, a shared experience • Parents expect their children to attend lectures, this is part of what they think they are paying for. • This is how students are used to “learning.” Practical • Our Key Information Stats will look bad and harm recruitment • Students will not use digital forms, so attrition rates will go up. 17 April 2015 The Pragmatic Case 4