Death of lectures ‘greatly exaggerated’ but ‘change needed’

Academics discuss future of traditional lectures at Quality Assurance Agency conference

Traditional lectures are not dead, but universities “need to move away from the lecture as the prime source of teaching,” a conference has heard.

Speaking at the Quality Assurance Agency’s annual conference on 11 May, University of St Andrews vice-chancellor Sally Mapstone argued that the death of the traditional lecture was “greatly exaggerated”, and there is “still a pedagogical role” for the one-hour lecture in universities.