listening to lectures at home

[gemgem49]

Does anyone prefer to listen to lectures at home? I find it easier. I can set up the slide and the word document and pause it at my own will and listen at my own pace. I know they say it's beneficial to go to the lectures but I don't see why.

[kdgamz]

its good for when you dont understand a particular lecture so you can listen to the audio again, but many students who don't turn up to the lecture never end up listening to it either so..

[vexx]

i like the idea of this especially when not feeling that good/up for being out&about, and i see they are doing the video lectures now for my semester 2 of chem so i can revise more efficiently at the end of the year or if i miss a class, can find lectures on there !!

[Russ]

I don't prefer it, I find it takes longer/cuts into my study time.
But if you miss a lecture, sure it's really useful.

@vexx, full video lectures are pretty unnecessary, slideshow is all you need.

[vexx]

I don't prefer it, I find it takes longer/cuts into my study time.
But if you miss a lecture, sure it's really useful.

@vexx, full video lectures are pretty unnecessary, slideshow is all you need.

why unnecessary?
.. note i haven't actually gone through a whole one yet.
maybe just good for skipping to part of a not-yet known concept?

[mystikal]

The only problem about watching lectures from home is that you cannot see the lecturer point to particular things which is really annoyin especially in biologyish type subjects =P

[Russ]

The only problem about watching lectures from home is that you cannot see the lecturer point to particular things which is really annoyin especially in biologyish type subjects =P

Or the lecturers that specifically say "oh well, i guess if you're listening to this at home then you've missed that".

And the full video isn't that much better than the slideshow, since it's pretty rare for the video stream to have anything useful. Lecturer movements generally aren't that helpful.

[Fyrefly]

My company law unit this semester is audio only... I am displeased by this.

[Cthulhu]

My company law unit this semester is audio only... I am displeased by this.

My lectures consist of lecturers doing work using overhead projectors. Listening to them talk about something completely unrelated to the current slide and having no idea whats going on for half an hour is a bit annoying.

[ReVeL]

Seeing as I have one 2 hour lecture on thursdays which I'm not going to go in for, I'll be listening to lectures at home regularly for the first time this sem.

[brookski]

at least most of you have the option to listen to lectures, for nursing if you don't show to the actual lecture to bad you miss out on it although we have access to the slideshow in PDF

[schmalex]

I actually find it a waste of time going to lectures sometimes, because if I'm tired I won't pay attention anyway. However, in lectures where there are a lot of diagrams it can be hard to follow if you're not actually there.

[jimmy999]

So far all my maths subjects, the lecturer has used an overhead projector and wrote notes up for it. Although these are scanned online, it's better for me to be at the lecture so I can see the formulas being developed and understand them better. For chemistry though, the lecturer has basically just read of the lecture slides which I already have so skipping those doesn't really matter. All up I try to go to most of my lectures unless I only have 1 lecture on the day which it isn't worth it

[Gloamglozer]

I know they say it's beneficial to go to the lectures but I don't see why.

It is beneficial because if you miss a lecture, at least 8 times out of 10, you won't ever go back to listen to it until Swotvac.  Or maybe even never...

Also, think about it this way.  Just say you miss a one hour lecture in the morning because you decided to sleep in.  At the end of the day, you still need to take out one hour of your time to sit down and listen to the lecture and could be potentially wasting time had you gone to uni and forced yourself to go to the lecture.

[IntoTheNewWorld]

I found that listening to a two hour microeco lecture actually took around 4 hours because I kept pausing the lecture and taking "internet breaks".

sigh.