When the Only Seat Is in Front of a Screen

 

Students at the University of Central Florida are fighting for seats in the institution's crowded lecture halls. Those who can't find a spot have to tune in online. Live-streaming lectures is not a new idea. Some institutions have broadcast lectures live for more than a decade, lecture-capture providers pointed out. But a recent story in The Orlando Sentinel, which featured “mega-classes” in the College of Business enrolling in one case nearly four times as many students as their assigned classrooms can seat and students sprawled in the aisles, has highlighted a particular use of the technology.

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