>A colleague had a student mutiny because he refused to put up his lecture slides for download.
I am an educator:
It's important for accessibility and educational reasons to offer information in written form as well as lecture form.
When Dijkstra says "You will be treated as grown-ups" - this is precisely an example of where you must take this advice and assume that students are asking for genuine reasons.
It's entirely reasonable to offer freestyle lectures (as Dijkstra apparently did), but the only reason to avoid giving students full access to a complete set of written educational material for the course is through laziness/inability to do a proper job or a wish to inappropriately exert power in the student-teacher relationship.
The students were absolutely right to complain here.
> It's important for accessibility and educational reasons to offer information in written form as well as lecture form.
Isn't that what the textbook is for? I mean, writing math problems on the blackboard to show how to solve them is dynamic and animated in a way you don't get from a textbook, but you also won't get that from downloaded lecture slides.
I am an educator:
It's important for accessibility and educational reasons to offer information in written form as well as lecture form.
When Dijkstra says "You will be treated as grown-ups" - this is precisely an example of where you must take this advice and assume that students are asking for genuine reasons.
It's entirely reasonable to offer freestyle lectures (as Dijkstra apparently did), but the only reason to avoid giving students full access to a complete set of written educational material for the course is through laziness/inability to do a proper job or a wish to inappropriately exert power in the student-teacher relationship.
The students were absolutely right to complain here.