How feasible/effective would it be for universities to livestream/record class lectures?

I had a bit of a shower thought, since my girlfriend is sick and doesn't want to go to class tonight. Imagine if college lectures set up a camera before the lecture and privately live streamed their lectures for students who are either sick or have some sort of engagement that makes it unreasonable for them to physically be in class. This way you could avoid sick students showing up to class and getting others or even teachers sick.

The only negative I could see is maybe students abusing this and just not showing up to lectures only livestreaming them to and not even paying attention for minimal effort for the class, but at the same time, some restrictions could be made. Maybe students only have X amount of livestreamed lectures they are allowed to watch and if they are really sick with proof for a prolonged period of time they could apply for extensions of this privilege.

I think it would be a pretty effective way of making lextures more accessible. If take to an extreme it could be interesting to have hybrid online/in person courses with recorded lectures that are also in person.

Submitted June 07, 2018 at 10:22AM by MartianMallCop https://ift.tt/2xS25IG