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...increase comes on the heels of a report by Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan G. Pedersen ’81-’82 and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz this fall that urged an increase in the number of seminars offered to first-years...
...number of seminars offered today is inadequate: two thirds of the 700 or so first-years who applied to be in a seminar this past fall found that there was no space for them. Dean of Undergraduate Education Susan H. Pedersen '82 and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz have brought this discussion to the floor of the Faculty; the council must let every professor know that this is a priority for undergraduates...
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...
...final concern of broadcasting the lectures is the professor's. By making the lectures available on the web, a professor losses the control over his or her image. On the Internet there is a concern of intellectual piracy. There may be someone out there who is interested in reproducing Wolcowitz's lectures without consent. To remedy this I would suggest additional password protection to the broadcasts, as well as the original password for the course website--this way, professor Wolcowiz can rest easy...
Broadcasting the lectures over the Internet is a true situation of benefits outweighing costs. With lectures on the web, accessible only through a password protected site by students who are enrolled, Wolcowitz can be fully appreciated for his lectures. Students, simultaneously get the full value of the lectures and the tuition money they pay. The fact that Wolcowitz is having his lectures broadcast truly is "good news," and I hope that it will be for many semesters to come...