While many professors often try to expand their teachings outside the standard curriculum, a guest lecturer at Wageningen University in the Netherlands may have gone just a little too far.
The professor was caught visiting a pornographic website following a Feb. 19 class, according to the Huffington Post. The only problem, however, was that he forgot to disconnect his laptop from the room’s overhead projector, which was still connected to the live feed.
With some students still tuned in to the stream, they were given some unexpected bonus material.
The professor, who remains unidentified, claimed the incident was an accident, and it only occurred because he wasn’t used to working with a laptop, according to Belgian news outlet De Morgen.
He was dismissed by the university following the incident, where he had been teaching advanced food chemistry, Belgian-based newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) reported.
“The teacher should not come back,” a Wageningen spokesman said, according to a translated report from Dutch-language Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie. “
The professor was apparently well-regarded by his students, according to HLN.
“I thought he was a good teacher, he knew to captivate [an audience],” one student said, according to a translated report from the media outlet.
The incident gained fame when a student still watching the stream managed to take a screenshot of the content that appeared and posted it to social media platform Reddit.
One commenter using the alias “darker4308” noted that the entire situation could have been avoided by using a very simple solution.
“This why you keep the porn-top separate from the work-top,” the user wrote. “That way there will never be any risk of confusion.”
Another user, hissxywife, had a slightly different concern.
“He didn’t even full-screen it?” they wrote.
