Other major North American universities provide this service. To ensure that McGill's good teaching has successful consequences, we should do the same thing. Students crave clarity and directness. Nonetheless, I am learning. We have masters in this department of course, David Harpp, for example.
Teaching has to be interactive to be effective.
By that I mean that students have to feel that I am speaking directly to them. As long as technology doesn't interfere with this, then it will be effective. I grew up with many of the multimedia experiments in the 1970s and they just didn't cut it as we all know. There was a detachment that was not overcome. Technocrats don't always ask this question once they become immersed in these techniques.