Tony Bates examines the history, purpose, and research on the effectiveness of the lecture and argues that “there are much better ways to teach that will result in better learning over the length of a course or program, and that lectures, whether live, or on MOOCs, YouTube videos or TED talks, are a poor way to prepare learners for a digital age.” In looking at the future, Bates states, “Lectures will still predominate for another ten years, but after that, in most institutions, courses based on three lectures a week over 13 weeks will have disappeared.” This decline, Bates says, will be due to the increase of online, multi-media based educational content and that “the priority for teaching will have changed from information transmission and organization to knowledge management, where students have the responsibility for finding, analyzing, evaluating, sharing and applying knowledge, under the direction of a skilled subject expert.”
http://www.tonybates.ca/2014/07/27/why-lectures-are-dead-or-soon-will-be/