Why teaching matters and technology doesn't : an evaluation and review of web-based lectures : flexible delivery in a first year law subject. Part II.

This paper - a companion to Part I, 'Lecturing (and not Lecturing) Using the Web: Developing a Teaching Strategy for Web-based Lectures' in the same journal issue - is an evaluation and review of the web lectures and the teaching strategy which was applied. Student responses to the web-based format and to the specific teaching strategy are addressed in sections two and three. In section four, the project review turns to the educational objectives and examines how the student responses might inform course design with a view to enhancing student learning approaches and outcomes. The author's aim in this article is not only to describe and analyse the experience during autumn semester 1999, but also to extrapolate from the project and the literature to identify some problems and potentials in the shift to web-based flexible learning. The evaluation is placed in the context of the theoretical and evaluative literature on teaching, learning and flexible delivery with a view to offering a constructive critique of teaching practices, new technologies and the relationships between these and the contemporary administration of higher education.