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A recent report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison E-Business Institute, "Insights Regarding Undergraduate Preference for Lecture Capture", has revealed just how important class capture is in the minds of today's college students: According to the survey, an impressive 82 percent of respondents (7,500 UW undergraduate and graduate students) prefer courses with an online lecture option. Sixty percent are even willing to pay for lecture capture services, preferably on a course-by-course basis.

A clip from Channel 11 in Colorado Springs regarding the use of video podcasting (vodcasting) at Woodland Park High School. Lectures are recorded, students do homework in class.

Just because 50-minute classroom sessions are the norm on a college schedule does not make that the ideal duration for students outside the lecture hall.

Mark C. Marino, a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California, has turned his Web page for a writing course he's teaching into a series of modular "widgets" that others can easily drop into their own Web pages.

Lester Ray, a development executive with Apple, hosted the afternoon session of UD's Summer Faculty Institute, during which he addressed the frequent divide between technologically savvy college students and traditional lecture hall teaching practices.