Leaving lectures behind makes sense for our university – here’s why

"...supporting academics in the transition to this new approach" In plain English this usually mean "...forcing academics to adopt a new approach" or in even simpler terms "my way, or the highway." This entire piece reads like a PR press release from Coventry University. Short on editorial material much, THE?

"But traditional, content-first teaching approaches ignore much of what decades of research has taught us about how ineffective it is for supporting students’ learning and how it is often an inefficient and uninspiring approach to the retention of information." - this! Fascinating, and bold, to undertake such a change during a pandemic

It's an interesting article that doesn't really paint a true picture of what happened. Pure PR spin. Aula is very basic and didn't even have any sort of quiz tool until very recently. How can you teach without lectures or a VLE with no formative/summative assessment? Moodle has been switched on throughout and heavily used. This was top down with very little guidance or support for staff. It was rushed to launch in September and Aula wasn't/isn't ready.