Active/Fireball Learning; interactive student empowed teaching philosophy, can it work?

The issues facing us in the road ahead in regards to cuts have caused DMU as an organisation to have to rethink a few ideas, find areas to cut spending but still give students the knowledge an information that they need, but the question I seem to ask myself is, how can you engage students. We are the iPod generation and it seems to me that it is a lot harder for lecturers to grasp the attention of students to get them engaged and industrious in lectures. 

Active/Fireball learning is a concept of having a more student centric type of lecture, an interactive lecture where the student becomes the main part and the lecturer the reinforcer, guest speakers can give real life insight and engage the student with a fresh face and a fresh set of ideas and thoughts particularly that of an individual from local businesses, they bring both business acumen and life skill to the forefront. Lectures should always have the theoretical, but this This type of lecture format does that and shapes the community idea into the teaching itself.

Strategic advantage drives this university, an as an organisation we are driven to pioneer new ideas and concepts, making radical change sometimes brings great results and bringing the idea of community into the lecture itself seems like a winning combination with a current focus on strengthening community involvement.

From all of this we are left with questions to be answered.

3 questions to be answered in the next few days.

-Can this new student centric teaching philosophy be formulated and based on DMUandME Principle? 

-Can this new lecture format achieve added value for staff, students and the community?

- At the end of the day, is this concept feasible and is their any utility in this?

Finally with my lecture tomorrow on strategic advantage what are the implications on the culture of DMU as an organisation?