Regarding the recent editorial on the new Adelaide University (opening 2026) abandoning traditional in-person lectures it should be noted that there will still be plenty of opportunities for on-campus tuition (dull or otherwise).
There has been plenty of hysteria in (other) parts of the media on this issue but much of it relates to a misunderstanding of the policy. Some media outlets assume that there will no longer be on-campus tuition, that we will become an ‘online-only’ university. In reality we will be doing much the same as the current practice in many courses at the legacy institutions, e.g. providing online content (a ‘lecture’) and then having in-class tuition to discuss it. Indeed in the new institution my courses will continue having two-hour in-person tutorials, which is twice the length of politics tutorials in many other universities throughout the country. If staff really want all students in any given course to come together as a group for instruction, they can always call it a ‘seminar’.
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