Should college lectures be recorded and put online in podcast format free to the public? Support your answer.
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I love the idea of placing college lectures online free for the public. There have been times where I really want to learn more about a certain topic but have no means to access such knowledge. This one time, I had just finished Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger and I had so many questions. I tried searching for articles online, but most of the articles were private (you had to pay to access them) or were too hard to understand. I finally found this website that showed lectures from universities and in particular, I found a Yale professor providing a lecture exactly on Franny and Zooey. It was quite possibly the best thing I have ever found on the internet. I think learning from a professor in a real context setting versus a online resource is much better. When a person is teaching, they are more personable while online texts can be confusing, long and boring. I can apply this concept to any subject, like physics. I rather learn about the power of gravity from a person whose target audience is college students than a textbook!
I think that college lectures should be recorded and put online in podcast format free to the public because these podcasts serve as a good source of information. I find that it is often easier to listen to a podcast about a certain topic rather than read a dry piece of literature. By making them free to the public, others who might not be able to afford to pay to attend university lectures will still be able to learn more about certain topics. However, I still believe that it wouldn't be fair to students who pay for college, so perhaps having a limited amount of access to free online lectures would be a good compromise. The public can still access some lectures online for free, but college students would be able to have access to the full set of lectures that is posted online. Also, I feel that posting the lectures online for free will still allow students to catch up on lectures they may have missed. Overall, posting free lectures online can be a good resource for college students and for the public.
Yes, any mechanism that would make education more open to the general public is a beneficial system. If knowledge is meant to be freely available and shared in order to better the general social consciousness, large Universities making their lectures available is critical in tearing down the barriers between the sharing of ideas. An individual researching a specific topic can then utilize all available resources thus forming the best conclusions. Sharing knowledge between networks facilitates the process of putting most students, and even the general public, on the same intellectual "level" and helps expose new groups to ideas to which they may have never been exposed. Also, on a more direct note, it can assist students who may have difficulties getting to a class still continue to learn and participate without the constant pressure to attend lecture.
Why would colleges continue to employ professors and lecturers if they could simply provide students with a set of links to lectures given at the dawn of the digital age?
College lectures should be available free for the public. additional sources of information would be really helpful while studying for exams or writing papers. you are unable to write down all the information given during a lecture but having the lecture recorded, you can go back and recall the information you missed. sometimes the material taught during your class is difficult to understand. having these lectures to fall back on maybe present the material in a more understandable way.
College lectures should be recorded and put online because this allows students to look over the previous lecture and learn some of the information the student might have missed. Also not everyone has the luxury of paying for a college education and by putting lectures online student can learn on their own or even adult students who don't have the time to register for classes but can use these online lectures to learn for themselves. I have used MIT open courseware which is taped lectures open to the public, for my engineering classes and it is extremely helpful in getting a different perspective on classes.
I am really unsure of whether college lectures should or should not be put online in podcast format free to the public. I feel like making the information public takes away from the students who paid (usually an exuberant amount) for the information and the educator who presents the material. The point of attending and paying for classes is to receive that education, and although the same person will not be getting a degree, they will still gain knowledge. Overall this will increase people’s knowledge and reduce the already large knowledge gap, but I just think it may be too extreme to take from someone’s very expensive education and provide it for free to others. Knowledge should be free, but until it is, I think this would be an extreme measure. Maybe there could be a compromise with allowing only introductory lectures to be available.
I think college lectures should be recorded and put online for free for public use. Not everyone has the opportunity, or the money, to go to college and putting lectures online would allow anyone to get access to a wealth of knowledge. Professors do not have to include full lectures or record all lectures, in order to keep the purpose of going to class/college. Recording lectures also allows people to listen and learn when on the go, which is a lot easier than lugging a book around.
I think college lectures should be recorded and put online free to the public. This would allow those who cannot afford college or don't have the resources to attend college for whatever reason to have the freedom to learn and become educated. This would also allow students that attended that lecture to go back and listen to it if there was a concept or something they did not comprehend. I would guess that a person who was against this idea would argue that it wouldn't be fair to those who pay for college and pay to go to class and hear these lectures. However, I believe the benefits of doing this outweigh the costs. A person watching these lectures free online wouldn't receive a college diploma or get all of the benefits they would if they were to attend a college. However, they would become a more informed, educated individual which would, in turn, be beneficial to our society.
I think that certain lectures should be free to the public through the use of podcasts. I think that those who can not afford college or have the time to attend but still wish to continue learning should be able to access lectures online about various topics they are interested in. That being said, I do believe that an education is very expensive and it's not exactly fair to students to offer a degree free of charge through podcasts. I think that basic lectures on concepts in a variety of fields should be posted but nothing that goes beyond an intro-level course.
Placing college lectures online is an excellent idea however the material should not be free to the public because it might violate the integrity and value of the work that the professors do and is in many ways a transfer of the denotation of concepts but hardly transfers the human ability to create connotations surrounding concepts which help frame the conversations that occur at the highest levels of scientific inquiry. While these materials can be offered at discounted prices or even free of cost, they should not be readily available to the public without a regulating body that disseminates information in a reliable and secure manner. Also this is where Web 2.0's ability to accept contributions from varying sources must be tightly regulated and highly disciplined. Learning is important for everyone, but maintaining respect for the knowledge that we are given is more important to me concerning this issue.
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