How can we make learning as accessible as possible without reducing its effectiveness?

June 20, 2023 Robert O'Toole 0

The question “should I routinely record my lectures?” is a badly posed proxy for the much more important challenge of accessibility. Lectures are most often messy mixtures of different types of learning activity, each of which is better done (for accessibility and effectiveness) in different formats, media and modes. In this article we consider how to describe and choose different types of activity, and when to record or not.