Setting Trends

”I asked about lectures, not lecture slides. Will there be lectures on the course website as well?” At the start of the autumn semester I received an e-mail from a student who planned to enroll for one of the courses I teach in the spring. Most of the questions were course-related — things I had answered many times before. My standard answer is that any slides used in a lecture are posted on the course website. But this response introduced a newcomer to the teaching-learning experience. No, I lecture to students, not to cameras, hence there will be no lectures on the website. End of conversation. Since the e-mail from the prospective student,...