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Pedagogical Change

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This chapter describes substantial changes in university pedagogy: the use of peer teaching in the Middle Ages and its revival in modern universities, the introduction of practical classes, the articulation of different levels of teaching–learning, and the move from ‘individual and successive’ instruction to classroom teaching. All these changes were the outcome of changes in the management of knowledge and its extension, rather than the direct outcome of changes in technology. The chapter then considers the effects of introducing printing, blackboards, twentieth century technologies and digital technologies, none of which has transformed pedagogy.

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Moodie, G. (2016). Pedagogical Change. In: Universities, Disruptive Technologies, and Continuity in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54943-3_5

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