Study while commuting???

...One prof has emailed me back and said she prefers not to be recorded and thanked me for asking. She said she views her lectures as a more intimate discussion discussion of the material and uses examples from personal life and those of patients...

I'm not sure I understand her reason for this. Or, I should say, I understand it, but it's not valid IMO.

I taped lectures with my phone and would listen to them as I studied my powerpoints and notes.

I also listened to them as I did my grocery shopping, house chores (dust, vac, cleaning etc), while folding or sorting laundry as well as when I was commuting to school. My commute was only 20 minutes but I tried to use every available minute I had to get in my studies :)

I'm not sure I understand her reason for this. Or, I should say, I understand it, but it's not valid IMO.

Or its his/her way nicely saying no because they don't want anything they say being put back in their face should there be a descrepency and they just used the above reasoning as why they don't want to be taped

We had one professor have no issues with taping, that is until he said something and it came back to bite him in the butt.

Listening to recorded lectures while commuting got me through nursing school. I've retained so much information listening to recorded lectures.

Better than recording lectures, IMO, is recording your own study notes.

You benefit from the process of creating them and they contain only that information which you feel you need to study... much more efficient study time than just listening to material, some of which you already know.

I just felt, out of courtesy, that I should ask permission first. Another prof emailed me back and said it would be fine if I don't distribute it. I respect both prof's choices.