Online lectures mean fewer students are turning up – does it matter?
- Written by Natalie Skead, Professor, Dean of Law School, University of Western Australia

In 2017, a business lecturer posted a photo on LinkedIn showing a completely empty university classroom, 15 minutes after the class had been scheduled to start.
This is not an isolated incident. Anecdotally, lecture and tutorial attendance has been declining steadily in Australian universities and faculties for many years.
Declining...