A useful way to think about instructional work is to separate two different needs:

Some tasks require your judgment and feedback. Others require students to have access to something you have already decided.

Those are not the same thing.

Judgment-heavy work is where your presence matters most.

These are not simply acts of delivery.

They depend on context, interpretation, and discretion.

But many other parts of a course work differently.

A student may need to know how an assignment is structured.

They may need an explanation of a recurring concept.

They may need to see how to use a particular tool, follow a process, prepare for a lab, interpret a rubric, or understand the background necessary for the next activity.

In those cases, the central requirement is often not real-time judgment.

It is access to a clear, accurate, instructor-approved explanation.

That distinction matters because instructors often spend live time on both categories.

The result is that high-value instructional work and straightforward delivery compete for the same limited schedule.

One way to evaluate this is to ask:

Does this require my judgment when it is delivered?

If it requires judgment in the moment, instructor presence is probably essential.

If the expertise can be applied beforehand—by deciding what should be said, how it should be explained, and what students need to understand—the explanation may be a good candidate for asynchronous delivery.

That does not mean lowering standards or removing the instructor from the course.

The instructor still determines what is said, what is emphasized, what examples are appropriate, and what students are expected to understand.

The change is simply that access to the explanation no longer has to depend entirely on the instructor being available at that exact moment.

An instructor avatar can be one reasonable way to make that possible.

For a prepared explanation, walkthrough, or demonstration, an avatar can deliver material the instructor has already reviewed and approved, while preserving the instructor’s language, emphasis, and academic intent.

The important point is not the avatar itself.

It is that a stable explanation can remain available without requiring the instructor to personally deliver it every time.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Yannick

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