The pandemic haunting the world since March 2020, has forced schools and universities to increase their use of, or for some finally start using online learning methods. Both live lectures using online video meeting applications and use of in-house produced video resources have increased and have been used to facilitate online learning. In many cases available technology is used to maintain traditional teaching methods online, whilst some institutions are more innovative in their approach of using video lectures. Norwegian Defense University College (NDUC) updated view of learning emphases the need to move away from teaching methods making the students passive receivers of information. Instead NDUC must implement more student active methods that lay the ground for the students to collectively work with problems close to their areas of practice. These principles also apply for online- modules and courses.

The NDUC digital strategy and the implementation of flipped classroom calls for more use of online learning resources instead of spending most of the time in the classroom using traditional lectures. The production and use of digital learning resources are met with many prejudices. They are too hard to make, the students will not use them, how can the students ask questions, they are to long and it will make the teachers obsolete.

This paper will present the findings from a R&D project conduced at NDUC during 2020, replacing classroom lectures with mainly video lectures in a War college course with more than 200 military students. The result will together with existing research, form the basis for the discussion around the question:  If digital learning resources can and should replace the traditional classroom lecture in the future, too meet the demand for more flexibility and innovative use of learning technology to develop and to enhance teaching methods.