No. 3 – Teaching After the Storm: Reimagining the Traditional Lecture
Channel: EDEN Digital Learning Europe
Date: 25/05/2021

In this webinar, we explore the question is the lecture dead? Will the traditional lecture format be a casualty of efforts to build back better? One of the biggest challenges facing educators when quickly moving to emergency remote online teaching was how to teach large classes effectively. At the beginning of the COVID crisis, many people merely replaced their traditional face-to-face lecture with a live synchronously delivered session through Zoom, Teams, Collaborate, or other online platforms. It soon became apparent that lecturing down a digital pipe to a large group of students passively watching from their screen-tops was not the most engaging form of online learning. While this approach was understandable during the height of a crisis, students’ feedback and a commitment to providing quality higher education challenge us to do better. The pandemic experience raises longer-term questions about the value of the traditional lecture method—irrespective of the delivery mode. A diverse and experienced group of international educators reflect in this panel discussion on the challenge of teaching large classes both during and beyond the pandemic. Post-pandemic, what is the future of the lecture? Is there still a place for the lecture? Is the traditional lecture antithetical to promoting active and meaningful learning that develops more creative, innovative and imaginative learners? Beyond the storm, how do we avoid the danger of grafting old 19th Century teaching methods onto new 21st Century digital technologies? If the lecture still has a place in the new digital learning classroom, what should it look like? How might we develop a hybrid model of the lecture that harnesses the best of older pedagogies with new digital technologies to enhance the student experience when teaching large classes? As part of this lively roundtable discussion, the panel will consider these questions, and more, as well as those posed by participants as we defend, challenge and reimagine the lecture.

Moderator
Mark Brown
EDEN Treasurer
@mbrownz

Speakers
Ann Marie Farrell
@AnnMFarrell

David Hornsby
@DavidJHornsby

Blaženka Divjak

Paul Prinsloo
@12prinsp

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