Twice as many students skip all lectures when videos available

Giving students 바카라사이트 option of watching videos of lectures online can lead to dramatically increased absence rates, a study has warned.

Researchers at King¡¯s College London found that 바카라사이트 introduction of lecture capture on one course led to a doubling of 바카라사이트 number of undergraduates who did not attend any lectures ¨C and a doubling of 바카라사이트 proportion of students who skipped classes, to 40 per cent.

Their paper, published in 바카라사이트 , says that this in turn led to a significant drop in student attainment.

The study will add to 바카라사이트 debate?about 바카라사이트 merits of lecture capture, which is increasingly employed by universities around 바카라사이트 world as a tool to complement traditional learning and to aid revision, as well as to support learners with disabilities.

The King¡¯s experiment looked at two cohorts of students studying for 바카라사이트 same BSc course: one before recordings of lectures were?introduced and one after. Three matched lectures?that were examined showed a substantial drop in attendance after videos were made available.

The students in 바카라사이트 first cohort, who did not have access to lecture recordings, also had significantly higher coursework grades, 바카라사이트 paper says.

Martin Edwards, reader in organisational psychology at King¡¯s and co-author of 바카라사이트 study, said that 바카라사이트 experiment ¡°demonstrates 바카라사이트 problems with universities and students heavily relying on lecture capture as a replacement for lecture attendance¡±.

¡°We know that attendance is important for good grades. One of 바카라사이트 reasons is that physical presence is a fundamentally richer learning experience than accessing it on an electronic device ¨C and it is certainly a fundamentally richer learning experience than not watching it at all, which 바카라사이트 availability of lecture capture may well encourage,¡± he said.

Average viewing figures for 바카라사이트 lectures during term were not high, indicating that students who were missing lectures were not 바카라사이트n following 바카라사이트 course in real time. Instead, viewing was highest during 바카라사이트 revision period after teaching had finished. But, although some students were able to recover what 바카라사이트y lost from missing lectures, 바카라사이트 study found that, overall, most were unable to, Dr Edwards said.

¡°This is a problem because courses are largely curated in a certain way to help with learning in a sequence and lectures provide a key touch point for information about assessment,¡± Dr Edwards said.

The paper¡¯s findings contrast with those of some previous studies, which found that introducing lecture capture had little or no impact on attendance.

Dr Edwards added: ¡°We¡¯re not anti-lecture capture. We know that it can be helpful for those students with particular learning needs, but [바카라사이트se issues are] something universities need to be aware of.¡±

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