By Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Ed
Every semester a lot of professors’ lectures are essentially reruns because many instructors are too busy to upgrade their classroom methods. That frustrates Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at Harvard University, who argues that clinging to outdated teaching practices amounts to educational malpractice. “If you were going to see a doctor and the doctor said, ‘I’ve been really busy since I got out of medical school, and so I’m going to treat you with the techniques I learned back then,’ you’d be rightly incensed,” he told me recently. “Yet there are a lot of faculty who say with a straight face, ‘I don’t need to change my teaching,’ as if nothing has been learned about teaching since they had been prepared to do it—if they’ve ever been prepared to.”
http://chronicle.com/article/Reaching-the-Last-Technology/123659/
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