Death of the Lecture(r)?

Matthews, Adam

doi:10.1007/s42438-021-00239-3

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“…It is also important to bear in mind that educational propaganda is very strong, and there are various claims about digital citizens and the death of the lecture(r) (Matthews, 2022), but learning processes must also be conducted in digital environments, and learning is not virtual but real (Gourlay, 2021). This means that pedagogical work in digital environments takes on different dimensions (Daniela, 2021).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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On a Pathway Towards the Digitalisation of Higher Education: The Case of Latvia

Daniela¹,

Ivsiņa²

2022

Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2022

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The European project POWERHEAD (Empowering Higher Education in Adopting Digital Learning), involving the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science (project partner) and the Flemish Department of Education and Training (project lead partner), aims to analyse the possibilities of digitising higher education. In order to identify the way forward, digitising higher education in Latvia and Belgium (Flemish Region) was mapped according to the methodology developed in the project, taking into account Laurillard’s model of drivers and enablers. The project aims to develop policy guidelines for partners at two levels: 1) guidelines for a national policy strategy on digital learning in higher education; and 2) guidelines including recommendations for higher education institutions to develop teaching and learning in this format and environment and to plan the next steps in the digitalisation of higher education. To this end, a multi-stage study was carried out to identify the situation in Latvia. The first phase consisted of a series of focus group discussions with higher education stakeholders (students, lecturers, business representatives and policy-makers). The second phase consisted of a survey of academic staff comprising 40 questions, two of which were designed to elicit demographic information, while the remaining questions were open-ended. The results (and related challenges) were analysed using content analysis principles. The key finding is that stakeholders are generally supportive of the digitalisation of higher education but point to a number of challenges that need to be addressed: support for lecturers in learning digital skills, collaboration between lecturers, and digital solution designers to ensure that digital solutions are of high quality and avoid the risks of knowledge fragmentation. It is also important to think about the principles of inclusive education so that the digital learning environment is accessible to everyone.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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On a Pathway Towards the Digitalisation of Higher Education: The Case of Latvia

Daniela¹,

Ivsiņa²

2022

Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2022

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“…The changing pattern of attendance calls for an investigation of university teaching practices in a post‐pandemic context and presents an opportunity to explore ways to improve our learning and teaching. The lecture attendance crisis is a clear opportunity because, even prior to the pandemic, there had already been some debate over the effectiveness of the traditional lecture and efforts to design more engaging lectures (Matthews, 2021; Readman et al, 2021). While there are a variety of teaching models present in geography and the STEM disciplines, the challenges of falling lecture attendance are nevertheless present.…”

Section: The Recent Lecture Attendance Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Reflections on post‐pandemic university teaching, the corresponding digitalisation of education and the lecture attendance crisis

Uekusa

2023

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This short commentary discusses effective university teaching in the context of the pandemic, the corresponding digitalisation of tertiary education, and the recent lecture attendance crisis. By critically reflecting on my own experience as a university educator and as a student in a teacher education course, I suggest that the attendance crisis presents an opportunity to explore effective teaching in a rapidly changing context. To improve our teaching and learning, we can reflect on what students and teachers have gone through and seek to understand who our students are.

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“…Rettberg’s argument points to critical perspectives on objectivity being socially constructed (Gitelman 2013 ). Andrejevic ( 2020b ) has responded, stating that the bias he is writing about is the bias of the medium (rather than the bias of ‘objective’ data); the newspaper is different to the radio, and the radio is different to the Internet, with different affordances as well as similarities (Matthews 2021 ).…”

Section: The Many Faces Of Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%