Olaf wrote:
> [Does anyone have a study with] a comparison of students with/without
> access to lecture recordings in the same course?
The Turner/Farmer UMichigan/Flint paper
www.AutoAuditorium.com/PressRelease/FECS08_StudentPerformance.pdf
doesn't compare class room student performance to remote student performance of
the _same_instances_ of lecture. Rather it is a before and after study where
the same instructors were teaching the same courses in the same room to
_essentially_ the same students before and after the Cyber Classroom was in
use. ((They grew the same crops with the same farmers in the same fields,
if you will.))
But I think part of the genius of their approach was that they said to their
students (I paraphrase):
You have signed up for Data Structures.
Come to the classes. Watch the recordings. Do both. Do neither.
We don't care.
Turn in your assignments. Take the exams. Take the final.
(The recordings are erased after the final.)
Get your grade. Get your degree.
So the recordings are a resource to the students, much as the classes are.
Some students come to all the classes. Some come to none.
Some students watch all the recordings. Some watch none.
And every variation in between.
Students do not have to deal with the administration to change their minds,
although they should talk with the instructor.
And if there are two sections of the same course with the same instructor,
there are two recordings! After all the dynamics of each section is different.
I think the essence of the wisdom of this method is illustrated by the student
living in Michigan that had to return home to Singapore half way through his
course work. He got his degree from UMich/Flint.
I'm old enough to remember when overhead projectors were the new thing in the
classroom. Then came computer projectors. Then "smart" boards.
I expect that routine lecture capture of classes is in our future.
And my prejudice is that some variation on formal classroom lecture will be
with us for a very long time, even as may other instructional models flourish.
After all the AutoAuditorium System at the Banff International Research Station
had to learn how to deal with chalkboards, because they are often used during
lectures given there.
www.AutoAuditorium.com/playbackBIRS_Lapan.html
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Mike Bianchi
Foveal Systems
973 822-2085
[email protected]
http://www.AutoAuditorium.com
http://www.FovealMounts.com
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