The issues here are not just Professor A live vs Professor A on
tape, but Terrific Professor X on tape vs. Boring Professors Y1,
Y2, Y3, Yn live.
What will shift our work from lecturing to sleepy audiences of
500-1000 students vs. all the other things we can do is probably
not research results on educational effectiveness, anyway.
It is the likely economics of mass higher education (which is
to say the politics of that economics). Policy decisions are only
rationalized by research, not actually based on it; especially
when the interests of those deciding differ significantly from
the interests of those affected, and their political power likewise.
JAY.
JAY LEMKE.
City University of New York.
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