On 7/2/20 11:42 am, Roger Clarke wrote:
In 1994-95 ... intended dropping several lectures... threatened to sack me. ...
Things have progressed. In 2008 when I announced I was not giving any more lectures and proposed a pure on-line course, this was approved, eventually. Concern was not over the lack of lectures, but assessment methods. I had to make the case that it was okay to have a course with no traditional face-to-face examination at the end.
In 2017 ANU started offering online language courses through Open Universities Australia: https://www.open.edu.au/about-us/media-centre/news-and-media-releases/2017/12/19/03/50/oua-forms-new-partnership-with-the-australian-national-university
A person doing a fresh and enthusiastic presentation ...
Unfortunately the typical university lecture is not fresh, or filled with enthusiasm. The low point for me was when I was briefly a night school student, on a cold, dark campus, where no one wanted to be: not the students, or the lecturer.
Some students like to be in the same venue as the lecturer. ...
A "live studio audience" also makes for a better recorded presentation, as TV comedy producers know.
And students do like a lecture at the end of a unit of study. ...
Students like having lectures available, but do not necessarily turn up. Research shows that lectures make no significant difference to student outcomes.
See: "Ten Tips for Quickly Converting Courses for Online Delivery " https://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2020/02/some-tips-for-quickly-converting.html
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