Mark Smithers

Learning and Educational Technology in Higher Education

September, 2010

Reforming the university: evolution or revolution? – A Response

As a ‘disenfranchised insider’ I really enjoyed reading Tony Bates’blog post ‘Reforming the university: evolution or revolution?’. In it Dr Bates discusses change in universities from a stakeholder point of view and considers Faculty, Students, Government and the Economy. He concludes by saying: My view is that universities do need to change quite radically, and [...]

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Wrong on so many levels

I read an article in The Age on Tuesday titled ‘Politics wanes on the digital campus’. It was essentially about the changes in university campus life over the last forty years and it was quite an interesting read. What struck me though was the following couple of sentences: “Online lectures make an easy symbol for [...]