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Using Lecture Capture to enhance teaching and learning and meet student expectations and needs
Steve Rose
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The lecture remains the primary teaching strategy employed across the UK university sector and it is this particular aspect of the student experience at Exeter where it is hoped that new technology can be harnessed to positive benefit and enhancement
‘The presentational approach to teaching is highly prescriptive and is exemplified by the large lecture. The approach is inherently a one-way transmission of information.’
(Garrison and Anderson 2003 p17)
Drivers for change affecting the traditional lecture
• New Learning spaces which aim to accommodate increasing numbers of students
• Facilities in traditional lecture theatres which aim to meet student needs and expectations in a 21st century learning environment
• A ‘new generation’ of students who are confident users of information technology and have lifestyles which reflect the digital age
• A widening participation agenda that strives for equality and diversity in the student body
The transformation of Learning Spaces
‘New Students’
‘Digital Natives’ (Prensky)
Joint Information Systems Council (JISC)
‘The UK’s learner base is changing at great speed. Students are increasingly demanding that universities and colleges provide flexible and personalised learning which makes full use of the internet and IT applications’.
Internationalisation and a more diverse student body
Diverse Learning Needs
Demands on Time
Time shifting..
Learning independent of location can be facilitated using e.g.
Echo360
Asynchronous discussion in virtual learning environments (VLEs) and Web 2.0 environments (Social Networking sites)
Collaborative work using Wikis and other shared documents e.g.
Lecture Capture at the University of Exeter
Features – Echo360 can..
• Automate the capture of multiple sources with the lecture theatre such as - camera, audio, PowerPoint / presentation, digitiser
• Be simple to use and unobtrusive to the lecturer. No prior technical knowledge needed to use the system
• Integrate with existing infrastructure especially that currently installed within lecture theatres (e.g. interactive whiteboards and Crestron control panels)
• Integrate with our current VLE, WebCT as well as other main stream VLE systems
• Provide a simple index of captured lecture contents to allow end user navigation
• Be either permanently installed in a room or mobile • Be automated and provide the captured lecture in near real time
Benefits..• Increased learner control – flexibility with respect to
accessing and searching the video to identify particular elements of a recorded session
• Online bite size delivery: splitting the session into smaller digestible sections or topics to aid student navigation of content
• Synthesis: incorporating all or parts of the video into multimedia learning resources
• Ability to review sessions for revision • Ability to support range of technology platforms and
mobile devices
The use of Echo360 at Exeter is currently a pilot project but there is growing demand from across the university, particularly from students for its wider use.
Meeting students needs and expectations in ICT is a strategic priority of the university and the eLearning section of the Education Enhancement Unit
‘Expensive’ but..
‘The 2008 survey of technology-enhanced learning for higher education in the UK by the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) found that enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and meeting student expectations, are the two most significant drivers for institutions to invest in new technologies’ (HEFCE)
One observation (US university)
‘It should be stressed that lecture capture, in itself, is unlikely to improve the quality of student learning. At best, the captured material offers an alternative review mechanism, similar to handwritten course notes or a textbook, but with the benefit of an accompanying soundtrack.
Perhaps more substantial factors are the effect of the technology on the quality of the instructor's presentation and the students’ use of the recorded material for study purposes.’
Issues..
• Impact on attendance?
• Impact on student behaviour in lectures e.g. on note-taking?
• ‘Buy in’ on the part of those delivering lectures..
• Impact on delivery and the structure/content of lectures
Impact on student behaviour..
Issues..
• IP
• ‘Exposure’ – a sensitive issue but of course lecture recordings can showcase exemplary practice too!!
• Storage – volume and longevity
Evaluation
Refer to paper ‘Lecture Capture, digitisation and review – a ase study o the use of Echo360 at the University of Exeter
The Echo 360 system generates data which allows for interpretation of impact
Echo360 statistics
SchoolModule Lectures Views Proportional Number of Students
Psychology
PSY2034 4 80 20.0 162
PSY2023 9 204 22.7 185
PSY2022 4 64 16.0 167
PSY2016 4 6 1.5 181
PSY1128 12 542 45.2 250
POL2052 4 234 58.5 80Law
LAW2020 22 1673 76.0 46
LAW1004 2 559 279.5 277
HIH1000 1 79 79.0 235
GEO1205 8 236 29.5 178
EAS1015 4 230 57.5 256
EAS1014 7 1417 202.4 237
EAS1012 2 82 41.0 239Business
BEM1007 11 556 50.5 290
BEE1024 4 252 63.0 205
BEE1001 16 1695 105.9 603
BEA1007 7 434 62.0 363
BEA1006 19 1070 56.3 475
TOTALS 140 9413 4429
Further work
• Impact on attainment
• Impact on retention (of students)
• Impact on the quality of teaching
• Student satisfaction - NSS
Other solutions
• It is possible to use other applications (some of them free!) to effect lecture capture and review.
• Simple video-recordngs via a camera and assembly as files in a VLE or combined Powerpoint/’Talking Head’ applications e.g. Camtasia
