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Best practices using LectureTools – How the University of Ottawa provides a campus-wide strategy

“I felt like a rock star and the students, they looked like rock stars, and I will never, ever forget this course!” – Colin Montpetit, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Ottawa

Two teams faced off to an Oxford style debate last week on NPR to argue the motion, “More Clicks, Fewer Bricks: The Lecture Hall is Obsolete.” The team debating for the motion was comprised of EdX founder and MIT professor Anant Agarwal along with Ben Nelson, Chairman and CEO of The Minerva Project. The team debating against the motion consisted of Jonathon Cole, former provost and dean of faculties at Columbia University and Rebecca Schuman, writer, speaker, adjunct professor and activist on behalf of adjunct and contingent faculty in the U.S.