We have been archiving IV courses for about three years and then making those lectures available via our learning platform. The faculty had the argument that it would encourage students to miss classes. After using it for one year, we polled the faculty and their attitude had changed. The good students were using it to reinforce the material covered in class and the attendance has not been an issue.
In our case, attendance policies were left up to the individual faculty member. We also record every IV class but the instructor has control over releasing the archive (by default all released) - they can turn off archives at the course level or by date. The institution gets to say it records all lectures but the faculty has control over students access.
If this is not already, it will be expected by students in the future.
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I thought the same thing when sourceforge came up. Someone might catch some flak over that one.
We have been archiving IV courses for about three years and then making those lectures available via our learning platform. The faculty had the argument that it would encourage students to miss classes. After using it for one year, we polled the faculty and their attitude had changed. The good students were using it to reinforce the material covered in class and the attendance has not been an issue.
In our case, attendance policies were left up to the individual faculty member. We also record every IV class but the instructor has control over releasing the archive (by default all released) - they can turn off archives at the course level or by date. The institution gets to say it records all lectures but the faculty has control over students access.
If this is not already, it will be expected by students in the future.