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shared by Teresa Guasch on 06 Mar 12 - Cached

Research is at an early stage, but is causing widespread interest. Most lecturers add notes in the margins of students' essays, normally fewer than ten words. However, because tutors can talk as they correct the work, much more detailed and complete feedback can be given.
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Imagine you could open up a student's essay on your computer screen, press a button and from that moment on everything you said and any corrections you made on the work were all recorded on video. If you highlighted something, underlined a spelling mistake or talked about the organisation of the essay, it would all be recorded.
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They could then play it back, and listen and watch as you commented on their essay. You could get them to watch the video and then redraft their essay. Moreover, it wouldn't require any fancy software, just standard screen recorder software that works at a click of the mouse.
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simplicity
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small amount of extra time involved
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This makes feedback both oral and visual, and therefore suitable for different learning styles.
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these ideas are not limited to higher education.
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distance learning
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Camtasia
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The second step was to look at the kind of feedback provided. Is it better to provide direct correction of the mistakes within the videos or simply to highlight mistakes, but get students to correct the work themselves?
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not to correct the mistakes but rather to point out where they were
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- Teresa Guasch on 06 Mar 12
  
  = to our study (paper: Guasch, Espasa, Alvarez, Kirschner, 2011)
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">= to our study (paper: Guasch, Espasa, Alvarez, Kirschner, 2011)</div>
  
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some comparative studies.
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This forces students to work with the videos and extract the information provided in them
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- Teresa Guasch on 06 Mar 12
  
  But, what do they exactly do with the feedback received? what do they integrate? How do they revise the document?
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">But, what do they exactly do with the feedback received? what do they integrate? How do they revise the document?</div>
  
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Are the videos effective learning tools? Do they result in improved drafts against traditional methods and what do students feel about them?
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