Mike, > And if there are two sections of the same course with the same > instructor, there are two recordings! After all the dynamics of each > section is different.
We do they same thing - attend or don't, but the recordings are available if you want. Some instructors modify this, and we haven't done a lot of distance courses this way (though some), but it's seen to augment the student experience. I think it has a strong affect on instructors too -- when they just see it as something passive that they don't have to put more time into (chopping lectures, setting up equipment, keeping a list of who can access them, etc.) they just forget about it and teach normally. And just as a comment for those interested, uptake in watching lectures is highly variable, but tends to be much higher in STEM disciplines versus non-STEM ones. > boards. I expect that routine lecture capture of classes is in our Agreed. I would be surprised if 50% of classes at all major institutions aren't recorded automatically in the next five years. Any institution that doesn't do this is slipping, with the exception perhaps of niche schools. > future. And my prejudice is that some variation on formal classroom > lecture will be with us for a very long time, even as may other I agree that the formal lecture isn't disappearing, despite the number of folks trying to flip classrooms. I'm not sure that I agree that chalk will be around long though -- it's $600 for an ipad you can hook up to a digital projector. That brings the cost of "smart boards" way down. With the plethora of multitouch monitors hitting the stage, I think chalkboard is dead in the next couple of years. Digital ink has so many accessibility wins for it (contrast, colour, allergies even) as well as usability wins (flip pages, unlimited boards, etc). As projectors switch over to 1080p+ you can do side by side and keep it readable. And it reduces the cost of lecture capture in the room, since it's much cheaper to capture from an HDMI signal than a camera... Chris -- Christopher Brooks, PhD ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 Phone: 1.306.966.1442 Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan 176 Thorvaldson Building 110 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/community To unsubscribe please email [email protected] _______________________________________________
