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I don't really understand why lectures have continued since the advent of affordable video technology. Every year the departments prepare unique lecture series
by Tycho 15y ago
I don't really understand why lectures have continued since the advent of affordable video technology. Every year the departments prepare unique lecture series and deliver them to new students, sometimes the same lecture twice a week because the numbers are so large, interacting very little with the audience, and expecting students to really engage with the new ideas they're exploring this term.
From the student's perspective having a video from some lecturer at Yale or wherever would be just as effective.
Lectures to small classes of say 10 are a different story, but on the scale of modern UK university courses it seems like one of the most inefficient systems imaginable.
- chalst 15y agoI think there is an element of motivation here, because students are more likely to attend a lecture course than they are to watch videos, even if they would find the video course a more efficient use of their time.
- kmfrk 15y agoEither a sense of motivation or one of obligation, since they know that someone is taking the time to do a lecture.
- Calamitous 15y agoYou guys don't know many college students, do you?
- kmfrk 15y ago"My anecdotal evidence is better than yours."
- greenyoda 15y agoIf a college just showed videos, students would see through the scam and no longer believe that college was worth tens of thousands of dollars a year, or decades of debt (in the U.S.).
- mkramlich 15y agobingo!