Lecture-free universities are the future – and they will transform the way we learn forever | Students - Telegraph.co.uk

Donald Clark, The Telegraph reports, University lectures are traditionally an hour long because the Sumerians had a base-60 number system. 

Studies show consistently poor attendance rates for university lectures across all subjects
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It is for the convenience of timetabling, not the psychology of attention and retention.
News that, for the first time, most university students are now spending less than two hours a day in lectures, as attendance rates plummet, shouldn't surprise...

We are also now seeing the rise of smart, AI-driven technology which will enable us to learn in different ways depending on how our brains work. Yet few academics are even aware of the existence of these tools.
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Source: Telegraph.co.uk