>> Lectures ought to be digital. We shouldn't have lectures at all, IMO. They arose in medieval times before the printing press, when the lector (which means "

>> Lectures ought to be digital. We shouldn't have lectures at all, IMO. They arose in medieval times before the printing press, when the lector (which means "reader" in Latin) would read a book, very slowly, while the students copied it down verbatim. At the end of the course, you'd have your own copy of the book. Of course, this actually made sense at the time. You couldn't pop down to Barnes and Noble and get your own copy of Aristotle, after all. The fact that we're still doing this in the 21st Century has more to do with the ego of academics who like to hear themselves talk than it does with any bona fide educational purpose. We already have technology that can help tailor instruction to individual students, and that capability is only going to get better with time. The university as we know it is doomed, IMO. The corpse just hasn't stopped twitching yet.