The traditional University lecture is not dead, but it 's not the best model for learning.
Lectures fall in the teaching paradigm category.
The keynote speaker, Theodore J. Marchese, vice president of the American Association for Higher Education and editor of Change magazine, pointed to a wealth of research and other literature supporting the learning paradigm, which is not dissimilar from John Dewey's assertion that knowing cannot be separated from doing. Marchese pointed out that the learning paradigm was not completely foreign to university teaching. The best of graduate school education allows the student to develop interests and study and converse in a community, under the supervision of an expert who starts as a taskmaster, then becomes a coach, and then a mentor, he said. The student ultimately becomes an independent learner and practitioner. You learn basketball by doing.