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“In a typical instructional setting, slides are projected and students must try to associate what the instructor is saying with the image. It puts a lot of pressure on the student.”
Lecture capture, Craig said, takes this pressure away. “With lecture capture, students can watch at their own rate, go anywhere in the presentation they wish, stop, start, and repeat. As one student said to me recently, ‘You’d have to be able to take shorthand to get everything if it weren’t for lecture capture.’”
Despite this obvious benefit, a number of university instructors remain hesitant. “I think the biggest fear for many teachers,” said Jerry Overmyer, mathematics and science outreach coordinator at the College of Natural and Health Sciences, University of Northern Colorado(UNC), “is that lecture capture will replace them and make them irrelevant.”
Yet, according to Overmyer, the exact opposite is true. “We are finding that lecture capture is allowing those teachers who used to do mostly traditional lecture in their classrooms be more engaged and personally understand the learning process of all their students,” he said.
Craig agreed. “Outstanding lecturers will still draw students to their live performance even though it is being captured.” They’re not going to be replaced.
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