Ever wish you could pause, rewind and fast foward your lecture?
It seems with the digital space, you no longer need to pull yourself out of bed at 8am in the morning for your university lecture.
Hop on to YouTube and watch what your professor thought your peers (or an empty class if they all follow suit with YouTube). This is an approach that University of New South Wales (UNSW) has taken (after following University of California, Berkeley). More than just lecture videos, UNSW is publishing videos about the campus as tours, revues and student work online.
Though this medium of attending lectures will never surpass the real interaction with your class mates nor will it help with practical related tutorials.
However it allow students to be able to replay all the videos just a few days before the exams. Given the public access to this site, even allows prospect parents who are considering UNSW to get an understanding of the sort of teaching methods used and a first hand experience of how a lecture session is held without having to physically attend one.
YouTube averages about approx 20 million unique visitors per month.
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