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Higher education must immediately stop obsolete blackboard teaching.

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Higher education must immediately stop obsolete blackboard teaching. Higher ed requires mentor and collaboration. What is obsolete blackboard teaching? [Lecturing is the] best way to get information from teacher’s notebook (mouth) to student’s notebook without touching the student’s mind.                                                                                         — George Leonard Patterns for bad practices of teaching, what is done in higher education, even best colleges. https://iambrainstorming.blogspot.in/2017/11/patterns-for-bad-practices-of-teaching.html So, how this can be solved? This is how colleges must run when there is the shortage of skilled teachers: 1) Give students compilation of pedagogically right content (such as videos, MOOCs, books, magazines etc.) What it means to be pedagogically right content? http://technoperiod.blogspot.in/2017/01/all-books-that-dont-meet-learning.html How learning can be more personalized with a decentralized s