The document discusses using video lectures for teaching. It describes the Lectures On Demand (LODE) system developed by the author for recording, streaming, and accessing video lectures. A study was conducted comparing the LODE system, which allows viewing full recorded lectures, to the Needle system, which allows searching and extracting information from lectures. The results showed that students who used the full LODE lectures performed better on questions requiring a complete understanding, while the Needle system allowed faster answering of definition-type questions.