Check out this very well-said statement by James Richard Brett, which appeared in the latest issue of the University of Virginia Magazine.
There are good economic and pedagogically sound reasons to make videos
of large-scale lectures for regular academic credit and to re-run those
lectures locally for a faculty-defined number of years, honing them and
evolving them to fit the local environment and the students. Faculty
must look at the curriculum to see where these opportunities exist and
resolve to find the right balance within the resources available.
Mere distribution of processed information is not higher education,
however. The essence of higher education is to foster in students the
ability to analyze ideas and data, to relate these to other materials,
to develop arguments, to reach conclusions and to present the results of
these processes with clarity and style, while encouraging a respect for
data and unpleasant facts, tolerance, commitment, creativity and
perpetual curiosity. The process is dynamic, cumulative and involves
extensive interaction among students, part of which is conducted by
people who have already had and reflected upon the experience—faculty.
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