A Time of Magic

These days it’s pretty much taken as-read that education requires a completely multi-media approach and yet what’s been occupying a lot of my time over the last week or two has virtually no hi-tech component at all.

What I’ve been working my way through is the excellent introductory psychology course from Yale. This is basically a video of the live course given in Yale in the Spring of 2007 with some bits cut out due to copyright (generally no more than one or two per 60 minute lecture).

There’s no interaction, no feedback, none of the stuff that we expect in DVD produced courses these days and yet almost all of the lectures were riveting. In many ways the presentation is little different to university courses that I did more than 20 years ago: so much for our “need” of all the hi-tech displays!

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1. Educational science
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3. Courses reflecting their subject
4. Choosing a course
5. Ever considered a really low-tech means of promotion?

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