Lectures are VERY time consuming to create (Score 1)

I provide a flash video/powerpoint based version of all of my lectures for my corporate finance courses for free. I considered charging for the materials but the amount that I would receive (a few hundred $ per year) is such a small amount that it wasn't worth justifying the price to the students (to me). I purchased the software (Articulate = $800), host the files, and spend the 4 hours each necessary to record the lessons on top of the time necessary to create the powerpoint lessons.

I am very surprised, but many of the students report that they review the lessons several times. Personally, I can't imagine that they have that much time, but that is what they say. I think that any professor that truly cares about the student's learning would do the same thing. I see very little value in having a video of the lesson, but the flash/powerpoint/audio version seems to be useful especially since it has searching and FF/RW built in.

My view is that if the students find it useful, it was worth my time.