Professors, associates and lecturers <br />Recruited together as committee members <br />They have responsibility on their shoulders <br />Conduct seminars and workshops for others <br /> <br />Support staff provides the arrangement <br />They carry the tasks, with deep commitment <br />Weeks in weeks out, they become assistants <br />Along with students they are one contingent. <br /> <br />We once used overhead projectors <br />Using transparencies and colorful markers <br />Then we were taught to use the computers <br />Since that day, we improved our lectures <br /> <br />Everything now is in digital form <br />If you are not in it you do not conform <br />Software and gadgets are only norm <br />This is the way, the best to perform <br /> <br />Students are taught the creative way <br />The traditional way no longer obey <br />The exams are not in the form of essay <br />Lectures say ‘huh' students say ‘hooray! ' <br /> <br />This is my reflections as a long tenured lecturer in Medical School from 1987 till present.<br /><br />Noor Othman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/academics-then-and-now/
