Learning for today's computer literate students is more visual than ever before. Sometimes with a distance learning video, teachers can be better prepared to do a lesson even though response time will be different. This concerned some of us that we will have to become actors to keep the attention of students during a video stand-up lecture. As teachers, we need to teach students the strategies to learn from a multimedia approach. Students are learning additional skills if the lesson is web based.
Students can go at their own speed because teaching over the internet is forgiving of speed.
Students might be more attentive so they will talk about the topic. Faculty could learn new technology by starting off in small steps such as introduce a new lecture in a new format and build upon it. Our group also discussed the benefits of a Teaching Excellence Center which would help faculty with technology type problems. A number of the members of the Circle routinely used technology in their classrooms. One member felt that the use of technology was necessay in order to compete with television for the students' attention.