In this era of the Internet, there is no longer any reason for one person (the lecturer) to be the ‘font of all knowledge’ and to stand at the front of a room at and talk at people for an hour or two. Most university lectures are a compilation of facts and analysis – sometimes presented in a reasonably interesting way, but usually really boring. Instead the lecturer could easily provide this information to students in much more engaging and user-friendly formats, for example by using the interactive capabilities of online applications.
And if lecturers insist on continuing to do face-to-face lectures, they should at the very least record their lectures so that students can podcast or vodcast them.