The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that New York University is exploring ways to use technology for large lecture courses, freeing up professors for more personalized instruction.
To do so, professors at the university will be creating free, online videos of their lectures, and for NYU students, they will add supplemental materials to the videos, such as links to the sources they mention in lectures, as well as pop-up definitions and quizzes. The idea is that by not having to give the same lecture over and over, professors can meet one-on-one with students, the article said.
While this example is obviously specific to higher education, would something similar work in K-12? Freeing teachers up to work with students individually would be beneficial to higher education and K-12 students alike, but would K-12 students be able to process a lecture full of information just by watching a video, even with the added materials? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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