3/27/2023 0 Comments Does cmaru record lectures![]() I once tried to record my own classes in a classroom that was not specially set up and it was an enormous pain in the butt. ![]() Before that, it was quite difficult (or expensive) unless you were in a small number of classrooms that had the appropriate setup (e.g., DMP 110). In the last year, UBC has invested a bunch of recording equipment so that faculty members can record their classes easily. It’s definitely such a struggle to continuously work on getting more and more faculty to see that and something that helps is the number of awesome faculty members who are committed to these and go out of their way to make sure they’re doing it themselves and are encouraging their peers to do so as well!! Students really value recorded lectures for a host of reasons- like being able to control the pace, use it for revision of content (I personally don’t get stuff the first time in class all the time so this is huge for me as a student), helps save commute times (as someone who commutes to work for 2 hours over the summer I personally feel this one a lot), and more. Students will use recorded lectures instead of coming to class (which we are pointing out is not the case for majority of students as we learned in the latest AMS Return to Campus Survey) Sometimes discuss controversial issues in class and don’t want students to feel conscious about what they say if it’s being recorded (we try to say that like just record the material and you explaining the content and not the discussion part if it makes people uncomfortable) “can’t teach an old dog new tricks” some faculty just prefer to stick to the traditional ways Intellectual property (they think their material can be sold or posted on sites like course hero etc) Hi! My name is Eshana and I’m the VP Academic and University Affairs at the AMS- this is something we’re continuously advocating for and some of the pushback we face on getting faculty to do it is: ![]()
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