The methods of information exchanging at different studying levels maybe not clear understanding by some teachers or lecturers. I would like to discuss some notes about what are the allowable or reasonable direction of talk and information exchanging or communication that may be occurred between the lecturer and the students at the university level that relates to studying requirements during the studying years.
Because of that lecture’s students are adults so in some times the lecture tries to make a discussion about some topics related to the field of study. This discussion may be represented as a bidirectional arrow as shown in figure 1. Since this kind of communication is important especially for students to gain experience and it is the best way to allow them to improve their skills. The examination date, curriculum, questions types, and scientific references are decided by the teacher as indicated by one direction arrow. It is better to let the students write the exam subjects schedule and this case indicated as a one direction arrow oriented from the students.
Nowadays new method of learning was added to conventional attendance education which is Online education. Because of the flexibility in this kind of learning that may be done at any time in the day, in the morning, or even in the evening. So it is better to be careful in dealing with this new situation.
In my opinion and from the experience and observation, I expect it to be the best that there are some subjects like lecture time or examination time must be decided only from the teacher or lecturer and do not make this kind of decision taken from the students. The reason for saying that it is not logical to ask each student about a suitable time for him or her.
In summary, for competition and skill development it is very common to share a discussion or any knowledge with students but in other cases like fixing the exam date or the time of the lecture, so trying to get a single word from any group of students may be a waste of time or maybe wrong decision that will affect in a negative manner on the students.
Perfect! I agree that your argument is not supporting a unidirectional decision. But a student must be a student as the lecturer knows more!
I completely agree with your opinion. However, the covid-19 pandemics dramatically changed and still changing the way of teaching and knowledge transfer in all the levels of education. A few years ago it was impossible in some countries to introduce the learning on distance or on line teaching. Now due to epidemiological measures, i.e. lock-down(s) it is impossible to realize curricula of every module or subject during the academic or school year. Most of academic staff and teachers in secondary preparatory schools changed their usual teaching methods over the night. Some successfully, some bad, but the students and their future employers are those who will judge very soon, according to competences of their employees who're studying at the moment, is this transformation successful or unsuccessful. The French have a very nice word for education, the French term for education is formation. That is also one very important role of every educational system, particularly this is one of the most important roles of Academia. Namely, one of the most important roles of Academia is not just to develop the competences and skills of the students, but also formation of future intellectual, regardless of branch and discipline of his/hers study. Nevertheless, considering the modern education and tendency of "learning for life" which means, development of only "necessary" skills and competences, I wonder is it development of real intellectual competences desirable in modern education or we have a trend of education without formation of complete intellectual personality? If yes, this is the end of every dialogue, discussion(s), whatever, because the highly qualified bank officers, clerks in public offices, teachers, engineers and doctors will do just what is requested from them from their employers or governments and that's very, very dangerous for the future of global civilization.
totally agree with Tadele Amare Kassie
There is a boundary between the teacher and the student
This is the premise that the student and the professor should take into account
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