If I record my lectures will I never see a student again?
“The Lectures Are Recorded, So Why Go to Class?” By Jeffrey Young is posted on the Chronicle of Higher Education. The post can be found here: http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i36/36a00103.htm
With the increasing use of lecture capture and the recording of guest seminars here in QMUL it’s a question that we get asked more and more as well.
Of the strategies suggested in the mentioned article I think one stands out that we’ve seen work here; rethink the face-to-face time. If a lecture is purely means of disseminating information then there are probably better and certainly easier ways to do it. Recording the lecture in advance is one way.
This either frees up time by doing away with the lecture altogether; something that is too rarely considered, or by allowing the valuable time that a student can actually speak with an academic to be used in more useful interactive ways. For example, a lecture recording (or capture) might be made required viewing before attending a seminar or tutorial about the topic.
Here in QMUL, the Echo360 (http://echo360.com/) is gaining popularity. It is centrally supported so the big problem of hosting the files isn’t so much of an issue. If you’d like to talk about using these technolgies please get in touch.