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A number of faculty at various universities (including here at UCLA) have decided to put their lectures online. Those who have claim that it frees up time for them to do more research, more one-on-one advising with their students, and to be more innovative in terms of what they do in class. Others use online lectures as a way for students to review material or for those unable to attend class. Many claim that presenting their lecture material in this way significantly changes how and what they teach in class.

Those who oppose putting lectures online often point out that it robs the student of the incentive to attend class, threatens the livelihood of the instructor, puts too much emphasis on presenting information rather than on the instructional interactions between students and instructor, and deprives faculty of their rightful intellectual property

In this forum, we will show some of the various forms of streaming lectures available online, discuss their applicability and utility here at UCLA, review the results of a survey that was sent out to faculty examining this subject, and hash out some of issues surrounding the delivery of lecture material in this way.