Your professor is teaching a class on higher education policy. Write a post responding to the professor's question. Express and support your opinion and contribute to the discussion in your own words. An effective response has at least 100 words.
Dr. Hannah Berg
Some universities have begun recording every lecture and making the recordings freely available to enrolled students. Supporters say this helps students who work, who are ill, or who need to hear difficult material twice. Critics reply that attendance falls sharply, that lecturers change what they say when recorded, and that students who watch alone lose the questions and discussion that make a lecture more than a text. Should all lectures be recorded? Why?
Nikhil
I am for it, and the strongest argument is not about convenience but about fairness. A student with a hearing difficulty, or one whose first language is not English, gets from a second viewing what everyone else got the first time. Refusing to record in order to protect attendance is asking that group to bear the cost of a problem that is not theirs.
Sofia
I agree entirely about access, but I do not think it settles the general question, because the access case is fully met by recording on request. What recording everything adds is the effect on the room, and that is where the evidence is uncomfortable: lecturers report avoiding tentative or provocative material once a camera is running, and a lecture that has stopped taking risks is worth less to everyone, including Nikhil's students.