The Web lecture is becoming increasingly popular in delivering course content, and it now holds its own place among the various presentation technologies. The availability of tools that support the incorporation of video in Web presentations has driven this expansion. Here, Peter Brusilovsky provides a framework for the comparison of types of Web lectures, and he surveys systems for the authoring and delivery of Web lectures. Since the early days of universities, a traditional oral lecture has been a keystone of higher education.
Synchronous lectures provide a distance access to a real lecture theater.
Asynchronous lectures are recorded and can be viewed at any time. Increasingly, Web lectures have become a popular method of presenting course material on the Web. Course developers find that a Web lecture is often the easiest way to place some course content on the Web. Web Lectures as Electronic Presentations Web lecture is an example of electronic presentation. It is a way to represent sequential material such as a lecture or a slide show.