One of the last classes I took at Texas Tech was a class in which the professor used “remote teaching”. There was no physical professor in the classroom with us, but there was a T.V. set that she popped up on everyday. Mounted on top of the T.V. was a video camera equipped with a microphone. If we ever needed to answer or ask a question, we had to push a little red button on our desk, and the camera would zoom in and give the professor a live feed of who we were and what we were asking. It was very strange asking a tv screen anything, and uncomfortable if you were camera shy. If no one was asking a question, the camera continually showed the entire classroom so the tv professor would be able to see if anyone was misbehaving or ditching class. I guess this manner of teaching made sense for Tech financially, but I don’t think it was very educational. By using a professor lecturing live from a remote location, the university could have several classes on different campuses taught at the same time by the same teacher. I know education is expensive and it’s a price I am willing to pay, but I just don’t think it’s right to have to give presentations to a tv screen and have a camera in my face every time I have a question. Besides, with as much as tuition costs, it kind of irks me that Tech would make me watch a tv screen for two hours twice a week. If everyone is paying for a class, we should all get a real class, not a screen who can’t even grade the homework it gave us. The ONLY thing I remember from that class is that a television taught it. How effective is that?
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