University of Northampton’s Rob Palfreman on interweaving tech into teaching
http://tech.newstatesman.com/it-leaders/university-northampton-teaching
Faced with an increasingly competitive market, the University of Northampton decided to review where it stood and created an overarching strategy. A key part of this strategy was to ensure that the university was future-focused and would use technology accordingly, but perhaps more significantly, the university wanted to change the way it approached teaching.
“We’re dismantling that long haul tradition of broadcast lectures where an individual stands up in front of a theatre and it’s a one way transmission,” says the university’s head of IT Rob Palfreman.