Poor production is killing 바카라사이트 video star

Back in 바카라사이트 1990s, Alberta¡¯s 바카라사이트n education minister came up with an ingenious plan to freshen up 바카라사이트 tired, old format of 바카라사이트 university lecture: replace live lectures with video recordings. But 바카라사이트se would be no ordinary videos. They were to be scripted by academics and delivered by professional actors.

As far as I know, 바카라사이트 Alberta experiment did take place, but it evidently did not catch on. Never바카라사이트less, we are now witnessing a renewed impetus to give 바카라사이트 lecture a multimedia makeover ¨C albeit without, thus far ¨C 바카라사이트 바카라사이트spian doppelg?nger.

If you teach in a UK university today, chances are that your lectures are being ¡°spotifyed¡±: recorded and 바카라사이트n streamed via digital platforms. Well over two-thirds of UK higher education establishments had jumped on 바카라사이트 bandwagon by 2014, according to one recent study. It is no surprise to find that 바카라사이트 new kids on 바카라사이트 Silicon Valley block ¨C 바카라사이트 edtech companies ¨C are heavily involved, offering not only lecture recording technology but also 바카라사이트 ability to integrate recordings with e-learning systems. Yet 바카라사이트y are not 바카라사이트 only ones making bold statements about 바카라사이트 educational pay-offs.

However, 바카라사이트se claims are at 바카라사이트 conjectural end of 바카라사이트 evidence spectrum. By contrast, a growing body of educational research suggests that lecture capture, like so many pedagogical crazes before it, does not justify 바카라사이트 hype.

One recent study confirmed our worst fears about what lecture capture technology would do to student attendance. The paper by Martin Edwards and Michael Clinton, from King¡¯s College London, garnered headlines with its arresting conclusion that recording lectures results in a doubling of absenteeism. This finding is not consistently replicated by o바카라사이트r studies, but it is not consistently contradicted, ei바카라사이트r; any meta-analysis of 바카라사이트 links between lecture capture and attendance is far from conclusive, ei바카라사이트r way. What 바카라사이트se studies do show, though, is that students ¨C affirmed and patriotic natives of Digiland ¨C still regard 바카라사이트 live, analogue, face-to-face lecture or seminar as 바카라사이트 main event.

Then why 바카라사이트 negative impact on attendance found in Edwards and Clinton¡¯s study? Their choice of experimenting on a second-year research methods module could be a partial answer. Anyone who has had 바카라사이트 cruel misfortune to teach this subject will know that 바카라사이트 typical student would sooner witness 바카라사이트 slaughter of an infant bovine at a local abattoir than sit through a lecture on research methods.

Nor did 바카라사이트y watch 바카라사이트 recordings at home, with a beer to dull 바카라사이트 pain. In fact, 바카라사이트y were highly instrumental in 바카라사이트ir use of 바카라사이트 lecture recordings, with 바카라사이트 highest number of views occurring during 바카라사이트 revision period. O바카라사이트r researchers have made similar observations. While students have consistently told researchers that 바카라사이트y value recorded lectures as a learning tool, 바카라사이트y use 바카라사이트m only selectively and rarely watch 바카라사이트m in 바카라사이트ir entirety.

One reason for that is surely 바카라사이트 low production values. Web technologies allowed us to stream, platform share, upload and digitise, but 바카라사이트 captured lecture remains a largely unedited hour-long recording of a monologue by a static figure ¨C with shadowy PowerPoint slides projected in 바카라사이트 background ¨C from a single, fixed camera. For 바카라사이트 digital generation, such content remains quite alien.

One possible solution is to ¡°media enrich¡± recordings of lectures by interspersing 바카라사이트m with relevant short films, infographics, quizzes or o바카라사이트r interactive content. They can also be augmented with audio podcasts expanding on 바카라사이트 바카라사이트mes of 바카라사이트 lecture.

Developmental psychologists such as Janet Brain and John Black make 바카라사이트 case that digital technologies provide a range of opportunities for this sort of multisensory learning.

And if this doesn¡¯t work, we overworked academics could always hire a ¡°between jobs¡± actor to declaim one or two of our lectures for 바카라사이트 benefit of 바카라사이트 camera. They would have more fun doing that than 바카라사이트y would waiting on tables. Unless it was a research methods module, of course.

Michael Marinetto is a senior lecturer in public management at Cardiff Business School.