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Lecture Capture: Lights! Camera! Action! -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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  • It forces you to address a skill set that you might not have thought much about, or not for a long time.
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      Jeff Swain on 08 Jun 11
       
      We never help create teachers. We create content experts and say go teach. There is a difference. A big difference. That is why you can name all your great teachers o one hand
  • "A college lecture is definitely a performance,
  • Jeff Swain on 09 Jun 11
     
    Chris, interesting question. I think any means that enables reflection on practice could help, if implemented properly. Tools like LC afford the opportunity to dissect & reflect on the actual performance, something teachers do not always get to see. Personally, seeing myself from the outside like that always humbles me & makes me want to improve. A video capture tool as part of a development kit could be a critical piece to improving performance. But, I'd want to explore this developmental idea further. My fear is we would not introduce LC properly &, with the best of intentions, doom it to mediocrity at best. What do you think of LC for this use? We'd have to think about the cost, audience, buy-in, etc. But from a pedagogical perspective as well? Jeff
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  • The most commonly touted benefit of these systems is that they are student centered. Capturing, indexing, publishing, and storing class lectures in online repositories, vendors say, provide students with a resource that improves learning outcomes.
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      Jeff Swain on 08 Jun 11
       
      It's truisms like this that get in the way of real knowing. Vendors says this is what students want. What would students say?
  • "What we're seeing is the accelerated death of the lecture as we know it,"
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      Jeff Swain on 08 Jun 11
       
      been predicted since the invention of the phonograph
  • Jeff Swain on 09 Jun 11
     
    One thing I'd like to push our group to do is start from the ultimate end-user's perspective-- the student. If the instructor is going to use this tool we should help her/him maximize the value by first exploring student use cases. Do students use these options now? For what? How do the use it? Does it suit a certain kind of student? Certain kind of discipline or course? We could see what data we can collect from the university and others as well. This may give us insight into what disciplines & content, and thus what instructors, this tool would best support. I have a hunch that the way video is produced now it is under-used and not as effective as it could be because we're not starting from the student POV. Thoughts from others?
  • Jeff Swain on 13 Jun 11
     
    Gary & Bart, Thanks for the insight. I'd be willing to wager the percentage of student use is closer to 30% than 95%. One thing Gary provides us is specific college instances. Is it worth looking at these from a student perspective first? We can than approach instructors with some insight & reasoning for the approach. Kate, what about some specific Liberal Arts instance? Thoughts from everyone?
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