The lecture is dead, long live the lecture!

Abstract

The Lecture is dead.

You hear it from educational technology companies, you hear it from publishers, from industry leaders. In a wonderful bit of irony, I even once heard it in a lecture!

Law Professor Peter Waring from the Singapore Murdoch Campus recently even won a debate in the affirmative, the topic? The Lecture is dead (Murdoch University, 2018).

So is it? I contend it’s not and if I’m wrong I really don’t want it to die and I’ll lecture you as to why. Here are my responses to some arguments getting around the place