Event Title
FSA10 - Making the Case for Online Video Instruction: Innovating the Educational Future
Location
PSY-226
Start Date
3-11-2017 3:30 PM
Description
Digital media is arguably the most underused arrow in the pedagogical quiver, since, if approached creatively, it has the potential of slaying the twin giants of student disinterest and disengagement. This roundtable presentation will focus on the fact that much more can be done to enhance student learning, given the technology readily available to academic institutions. Specifically, streaming video productions can now be locally produced and embedded in online course modules, bringing course material to life as never before. My own reluctant "conversion" to online teaching came about only through the realization of the potential to "condense" traditional in-class lectures into engaging, documentary-style presentations, accessible ondemand, in the same way a student might watch a Netflix episode. The ultimate objective of these efforts is the creation of a new model of instruction, largely congruent with the concept of the "flipped classroom." In traditional classrooms, all of the students listen to the same lecture simultaneously, with some enjoying relatively high levels of comprehension and retention while others struggle. By contrast, in the "flipped classroom," students access the lecture material at home, via video presentations on their own personal computers, and have the ability to pause, rewind, and view the material repeatedly, according to individual needs. I suggest the development of innovative video presentations along the lines of professional media (reusable in future iterations of the same online course), such as students are accustomed to accessing for entertainment. These can be coupled with short but regular online quizzes, to provide obvious motivation to learn actively the contents of the material covered. My ultimate goal is to create a new model for online learning, fully congruent with the needs and expectations of a new generation of twenty-first-century students.
FSA10 - Making the Case for Online Video Instruction: Innovating the Educational Future
PSY-226
Digital media is arguably the most underused arrow in the pedagogical quiver, since, if approached creatively, it has the potential of slaying the twin giants of student disinterest and disengagement. This roundtable presentation will focus on the fact that much more can be done to enhance student learning, given the technology readily available to academic institutions.
