PROVO — Last fall, David Wiley stood in front of a room full of professors and university administrators and delivered a prediction that made them squirm: "Your institutions will be irrelevant by 2020."
Teaching is one of the things I look forward to as an academic. It seems that straight lecture will become a smaller and smaller component of that as we progress. I am not of the opinion that a drastic shift will occur in higher ed because of institutional inertia.
However in order to better serve and educate students it will be come neccessary to create dynamic and flexible teaching methodologies. I expect these in my classrooms to include case studies, projects and cooperative work instead of lecture and regurgitation.
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