{"id":3603,"date":"2021-11-08T08:38:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/the-big-idea-should-we-leave-the-classroom-behind\/"},"modified":"2021-11-08T08:38:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T07:38:03","slug":"the-big-idea-should-we-leave-the-classroom-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/08\/the-big-idea-should-we-leave-the-classroom-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"The big idea: Should we leave the classroom behind?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pandemic has driven a great leap forward in digital learning. Is there any point in looking back?<\/p>\n

My 21-year-old goddaughter, a second-year undergraduate, mentioned in passing that she watches video lectures offline at twice the normal speed. Struck by this, I asked some other students I know. Many now routinely accelerate their lectures when learning offline \u2013 often by 1.5 times, sometimes by more. Speed learning is not for everyone, but there are whole Reddit threads<\/a> where students discuss how odd it will be to return to the lecture theatre. One contributor wrote: \u201cNormal speed now sounds like drunk speed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Education was adapting to the digital world long before Covid but, as with so many other human activities, the pandemic has given learning a huge shove towards the virtual. Overnight, schools and universities closed and teachers and students had to find ways to do what they do exclusively via the internet. Naturally there were problems, but as Professor Diana Laurillard of University College London\u2019s Knowledge Lab explains, they essentially pulled off an extraordinary \u2013 and global \u2013 experiment. \u201cIt can\u2019t return to the way it was,\u201d she says. \u201cThe cat is out of the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nThe pandemic has driven a great leap forward in digital learning. Is there any point in looking back?
\nMy 21-year-old goddaughter, a second-year undergraduate, mentioned in passing that she watches video lectures offline at twice the normal speed. Struck by this, I asked some other students I know. Many now routinely accelerate their lectures when learning offline \u2013 often by 1.5 times, sometimes by more. Speed learning is not for everyone, but there are whole Reddit threads where students discuss how odd it will be to return to the lecture theatre. One contributor wrote: \u201cNormal speed now sounds like drunk speed.\u201d
\nEducation was adapting to the digital world long before Covid but, as with so many other human activities, the pandemic has given learning a huge shove towards the virtual. Overnight, schools and universities closed and teachers and students had to find ways to do what they do exclusively via the internet. Naturally there were problems, but as Professor Diana Laurillard of University College London\u2019s Knowledge Lab explains, they essentially pulled off an extraordinary \u2013 and global \u2013 experiment. \u201cIt can\u2019t return to the way it was,\u201d she says. \u201cThe cat is out of the bag.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pandemic has driven a great leap forward in digital learning. Is there any point in looking back? My 21-year-old goddaughter, a second-year undergraduate, mentioned in passing that she watches video lectures offline at twice the normal speed. Struck by this, I asked some other students I know. Many now routinely accelerate their lectures when …<\/p>\n

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