To teach tech-savvy Millennials, forget boring books and lectures

To teach tech-savvy Millennials, forget boring books and lectures - They [the Millenials] are the most diverse -- and perhaps the smartest -- generation in U.S. history. And Richard Sweeney thinks the nation's colleges and universities need to start making changes to teach them better.

Sweeney, the university librarian at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, specializes in documenting the behavior of Millennials, the generation born between 1979 and 1994 or so. Over the last few years, he has become a popular speaker on the academic lecture circuit, touring the nation to talk to college faculties and higher education groups about closing the widening gap between Millennials and their Baby Boom professors.
"I believe there is a real incentive in trying to engage these kids," said Sweeney, 60. "These are consumers. They want to learn."

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