Graham Reynolds is the first to admit that he's not an expert when it comes to Facebook, but when he was given the opportunity to live-stream three of his university lectures about Viola Desmond on the site, he saw just how innovative this platform could be.
Dr. Reynolds is a professor emeritus at Cape Breton University who says he's still got enough life left in him to teach a course called "Viola Desmond's Canada." The course was taught in class at the campus in Sydney, Nova Scotia, but three lectures were streamed for the public on Facebook Live between September and November last year. They focused on the life and impact of Ms. Desmond, a Black woman who has become a symbol of civil rights in Canada for refusing to give up her seat in a white-seating area of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S., in 1946. She will become the face of Canada's $10 bank note this year.
Dr. Reynolds says that live-streaming and publishing lectures online gives people who are unable to attend CBU, or another university, the chance to learn.
"This is a way to deliver courses to a broader audience; people who for whatever reason, can't access the university but are looking for the kind of content these courses are offering," he says. "They can do this in their own homes."
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