Using innovation and technology to erase barriers to girls' education NEW YORK, United States, 18 October 2013 – A portable, hand-cranked radio receives texts and transmits lectures or tests from teachers to students in South Sudan, where Internet access is a rarity and schools can be distant and difficult to reach.
A pressing pedagogical challenge right now is the problem of adapting a linear model for transmitting knowledge the lecture monologue, in which a single line of thought leads to an intellectual climax after fifty minutes to a generation of students who are accustomed to dealing with multiple information streams in short bursts.
As if parroting the marketing copy in the college's brochure, alums overwhelmingly endorse Reed's "conference" style of learning, in which lessons transmitted in lectures are later reinforced in smaller groups where students engage in spirited debates.
Now I was the one doing the lecturing, transmitting the science and lived reality of the trans experience of the past 38 years.
Right now, online and hybrid offerings seem to be as good as standard lectures at transmitting this kind of knowledge, and, in the years ahead, they are bound to get better — more imaginatively curated, more interactive and with better assessments.
Videos that represent technology-delivered lectures that merely aim at transmitting content, compare poorly with well-planned interactive lectures.
Traditional instructors typically utilize their extensive content knowledge to transmit information by lecturing, while expert tutors, as we have seen, do not.
While traditional lecturing may be more effective at transmitting information than supporting development of skills, values or personal development (Abeysekera & Dawson, 2015).
The lectures are transmitted to the university's "teleport" and beamed from a rooftop satellite dish to students across Russia, former Soviet republics and Israel via eight rented channels on the American LMI 1 satellite.
Multimedia resources were used to transmit the content of lectures.
