Why doesn every USU OCW course offer video lectures?
Although video lectures are useful for students, there are many reasons that USU OCW does not include video lectures in every course. First is the issue of bandwidth. We are very much focused on making USU’s courses materials as accessible as possible to users all over the world, including the developing world. If we were to start depending on the video component as THE key element of every USU OCW course, we would be excluding a large portion of the USU OCW audience who are still surfing the Web on 28K modems. They would never be able to download the videos and we are very sensitive to that fact.
