Laura spinney books7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “The cat is out of the bag.”Īcademics who think about education recognise that not all the enforced changes have been good. “It can’t return to the way it was,” she says. Naturally there were problems, but as Professor Diana Laurillard of University College London’s Knowledge Lab explains, they essentially pulled off an extraordinary – and global – experiment. ![]() Overnight, schools and universities closed and teachers and students had to find ways to do what they do exclusively via the internet. One contributor wrote: “Normal speed now sounds like drunk speed.”Įducation was adapting to the digital world long before Covid but, as with so many other human activities, the pandemic has given learning a huge shove towards the virtual. Speed learning is not for everyone, but there are whole Reddit threads where students discuss how odd it will be to return to the lecture theatre. Many now routinely accelerate their lectures when learning offline – often by 1.5 times, sometimes by more. Struck by this, I asked some other students I know. M y 21-year-old goddaughter, a second-year undergraduate, mentioned in passing that she watches video lectures offline at twice the normal speed. ![]()
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