I recently graduated from The Ohio State University. One of my Electrical Engineering professors actually video recorded all of his lectures and posted them to his website immediately after class. He put them up in Quicktime format and students were allowed, encouraged actually, to download the movies and watch them on their own time. Once he started doing this (it took him a week or so), attendance in lecture dropped by half. Although I went to every lecture, many of my friends used the videos instead. The overall reaction to this idea was nothing but positive. Most of the studious people went to lecture anyways, and some people even watched lectures AND attended class for that extra emphasis. I think this is a great idea.
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I recently graduated from The Ohio State University. One of my Electrical Engineering professors actually video recorded all of his lectures and posted them to his website immediately after class. He put them up in Quicktime format and students were allowed, encouraged actually, to download the movies and watch them on their own time. Once he started doing this (it took him a week or so), attendance in lecture dropped by half. Although I went to every lecture, many of my friends used the videos instead. The overall reaction to this idea was nothing but positive. Most of the studious people went to lecture anyways, and some people even watched lectures AND attended class for that extra emphasis. I think this is a great idea.