Coursecasting may be the teaching tool du jour at college campuses across the country, but skeptical professors say the technology is confirming their worst fear—that students who can listen to lectures on their MP3 players won’t bother showing up for class.
Some professors who have posted lectures online are starting to tell horror stories like that of Americ Azevedo, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley. After Mr. Azevedo started podcasting last year, attendance in his "Introduction to Computers" course occasionally dropped from 200 enrolled students to about 20 people.
"Getting students out of their media bubble to be here is getting progressively harder," the professor says. (Los Angeles Times)
To read more about coursecasting, see an article from The Chronicle by Brock Read.
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