Go to the Globe and Mail homepageBy Sky Gilbert. Recently, a former president of the University of Guelph, Alastair Summerlee, delivered a speech in which he urged students and faculty alike to embrace the future: “We’re part of a legacy system that goes back to the days of monks. In the days since books were written one at a time, society embraced the printing press and now the internet. And yet we still teach by standing up and talking to people” The answer, Mr. Summerlee said, is to “create more online courses.”
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