Impact of On-line Lectures for an Undergraduate Mechanisms Course

This paper covers an initiative completed by the co-authors of capturing lectures for an undergraduate mechanisms course.In the fall of 2010, all lectures for the core course were presented live to the entire class.However, the first time at the Faculty of the autors' university, they were also recorded and available on-line for individual viewing at the students' convenience.The authors obtained feedback from the students not only thoughout the term with informal conversations and assembling comments from the on-line discussion board, but also by carrying out a formal questionnaire at the end of the term.This paper covers the details employed to complete the capture the lectures of the mechanisms course.Also presented are the responses by the students in a number of critical areas, including student attendance, and the reasons and level of viewing of the captured lectures.