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Although I’m not a great fan of traditional lectures as the mainstay of teaching and therefore announcements about university x podcasting its lectures don’t excite me much, I think there is a value in being able to go back and listen again to an event that you were at (and of course listen to an event that you were not able to attend).

I would guess that students who attend lectures that are recorded and made available shortly afterwards may well feel more confident about not having to write everything down and that may encourage less recording and reproduction of information and more thought and perhaps reflection…

The concern lecturers may have about students not turning up to lectures that are recorded may well be unfounded if the experience of Nathan Moss is anything to go by:

It was really good because the [lecture] numbers weren’t going down at all, so they were using them to revise

We will hopefully be finding out more about this as part of the HEA funded IMPALA project that we are a small part of.