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This past Thanksgiving, Senior Lecturer on Economics Jeffrey Wolcowitz decided the class he teaches, Economics 1010a, would be videotaped and broadcast on the Internet. "As an experiment I will have the rest of the lectures videotaped...I'll try it and if it works I'll do it again, and if not I don't feel any commitment for doing it for the whole term in the future...that's the good news." Now that the term has all but ended, I can already assure Mr. Wolcowitz that "it works." The videotaped lectures are not a replacement for actually attending...
Many professors refrain from broadcasting lectures on the Internet because of the fear that students will stop attending the lecture and replace the classroom experience with watching the lectures on the web. This is not a legitimate fear. The lectures broadcast on the web cannot compete with class for two reasons: First, lectures are broadcast three or four days after the class. Students interested in doing well on the Friday problem sets will want to attend the lectures that week...
...student loses out on the ability to ask questions when the lecture is watched from behind a screen. It is true that students who skip lecture will use the video to learn the material. But students who choose to miss class would miss class whether the lecture is broadcast or not. The decision to sleep through a class does not depend on whether that class is videotaped. Students know that they can get the notes if they miss class; by having the class broadcast, the students are better able to learn the material. There may be students who would force...
...position of staff pianist for his NBC Symphony Orchestra. Toscanini could be irascible, but he and Wild hit it off. "We both loved music so tirelessly," Wild says. The fiery maestro made Wild famous in 1942 by inviting him to play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue in a nationally broadcast concert...
...game of women's soccer has earned great support from the networks as of late. ESPN and ABC both broadcast games of the National Team throughout the summer as it played out its pre-Olympic schedule...