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Nary a vido

Browsing through my e-learning site, you may notice that, aside from the first lesson page - there are no embedded videos. I had the option to record some video tutorials for my site, but I chose not to. There's actually four reason for this: It takes time Recording videos it time consuming. To record a tutorial I would need to prepare all my materials - effectively another lesson's worth of prep - then rehearse the session, record it (as many takes as I needed) then edit it together. I really detest typical YouTube tutorial videos that spend five minutes begging for subscribers then doing the tutorial in one take, regardless of how far it goes off the rails. I have a bit of pride in my work, and would need to put the time in to do it properly. Maybe if I teach this module again I could record the lecture and upload that, but that leads onto the second point: I want students to attend There is always a risk with VLEs that students will skip classes as all the materi...