One point I can comment on however is the issue of some lecturers’ unwillingness to put their lectures online for reasons that really don’t stand up to scrutiny. Toni made exactly the same point in her keynote and argued strongly that it would be of great benefit to students if more lectures were made available online. I’m afraid this blog post is a very partial summary, based on how fast I could type during the presentation :}

It’s a long time since I’ve been a student myself and I’m not a teacher so I don’t really understand your comment about “drumming for dollars form the teachers association reps in the audience”. I’m inclined to agree that loud mouthed extroverts are best avoided in most circumstances though!

Many thanks for taking the time to read and comment.

Students “will defend lectures to the death”. Wrong. I would almost rather face death than sit through more inane lectures that could have been easily presented in an online format except that the teacher was too lazy or too scared about making public just how bad the lecture was.

If the traditional student population follows the general population distributions, then you can say that a third of those students are decidedly on the introversion side of the scale. These students find that study groups are usually a waste of time that slows their progress. The usually highly productive introvert also likes to avoid loud mouthed extroverts that think they know everything and pretend to represent the interests of their fellow students when they are actually just drumming for dollars from the teacher association reps in their audience.