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The Sacred Classroom: Navigating Higher Education in a Digital Era

Explore the complexities of digitization in universities and the sanctity of the classroom through insightful lessons on teaching, tradition, and public service. Learn how universities are evolving as content providers amid the digital age.

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The Sacred Classroom: Navigating Higher Education in a Digital Era

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  1. The Classroom is Sacred • By Siva Vaidhyanathan • Sivav@virginia.edu • @sivavaid

  2. A Reason to Believe • The university has been digitized

  3. A Reason for Caution • Not all digitization efforts are brilliant, or even necessary

  4. Universities are Copy Machines

  5. Lesson 1: • “The University” is not one thing.

  6. Lesson 2 • The classroom is a “fifth” space.

  7. Lesson 3 • The classroom is a place to experiment

  8. Lesson 4 • The classroom is a place for traditions and rituals

  9. Lesson 5 • Teachers are performers, and thus liars.

  10. Lesson 6 • Teaching is not the dissemination of information.

  11. Lesson 7 • Teaching is not the curation or selection of information

  12. Lesson 8 • Teaching ain’t easy

  13. Lesson 9 • Teaching is a public service, but not in every sense of “public.”

  14. Lesson 10 • Public-service duty of higher education demands openness with respect for traditions, needs of students.

  15. Content-Provider Paradox • Universities occupy every place on the diagram of content production, dissemination, and consumption.

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