AN experiment costing $100,000 could be about to improve poor communications between lecturers and their students, according to an eminent scientist and educationist.
The attempt to end the age-old problem will make use of advanced education technology, Sir Eric Ash told the 48th congregation at the Chinese University.
An 'electronic feedback path' from each student to the lecturer is to receive a trial run at the Department of Physics in University College London next October.
And he indicated collaboration with the Chinese University was also a possibility.
Students will get a response unit, a small box which will let them signal their level of understanding to the lecturer.
The former rector of Imperial College and a professor in the physics department of University College London, said that university teaching methods simply had not kept pace with advances in technology.
'The dominant teaching modality is still the lecture, which does not work very well. The concept of the lecture as the major component of a higher education is deeply flawed,' he said.