eTeach is an online tool that allows professors to simply record a video of themselves delivering a lecture, and place that video online along with a PowerPoint that is synchronized with their lecture. This online lecture would then be accessible to anyone taking that particular course.
The typical full-time college student has to attend at least two to three lectures per week. But should we students even have to take the time and go the distance to any classroom when we can have the comfort of listening to a lecture delivered online through eTeach? Just imagine the amount of time college students and professors could save every day. In addition, online lectures offer the flexibility of choosing when you want to view the lecture during the day. Time management would be so much easier without having the commitment of going to actual lectures. This would in turn make students more relaxed everyday, thus helping to decrease stress levels amongst college students. Decreased stress means that college students would be less likely to do crazy or illegal things, since these are usually just ways of relieving stress. In turn, there would be a lot less violence in the University!
After all, we are in the age of technology, and we should definitely take advantage of the powerful online tools that the University has to offer. This would show that we support the University for its efforts to provide us with these tools. If we don't show our support, then the University may start spending less money on this technology. The University may eventually decide not to spend their budget on managing servers for these tools. Sites like Learn@UW would soon cease to exist!
I believe that the University should cancel all live lectures and make all professors deliver lectures via eTeach. My friend taking CS310 says that he loves the way the course uses eTeach, and that this has significantly improved his life. I am confident that eTeach is the solution to improving the lives of many, many college students all across the University.
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