31. “ He who receives ideas from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.” Thomas Jefferson
As paper became more affordable, dictations became the common form in early universities, and students hand wrote their own copies of texts.
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With the “lecture text” we get wide margins, so that faculty can now dictate their annotations to students. Though universities temporarily ban dictations, students demand them and they continue.
And this is still our primary mode of instruction, 3000 years later.
Allan Collins talked about customization, learner control, production – technology enables these, but the law does not allow them.