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Wednesday, June 08, 2011 Students Rank Lecture Capture 'Most Important' Blended Learning Resource
Helge Scherlund, E-learning News, June 8, 2011.

Here's a dilemma for you. If you are one of those many people - legions, actually - who believe the lecture is a poor pedagogy, especially in the online learning environment, then what do you do when your end users - students - declare lecture capture to be the most important technology of the day. After all, we are supposed to be driven by end-user needs, aren't we? So should we put down our social networking and interaction tools and go out there and start coding (or acquiring, depending on whether you're Desire2Learn or Blackboard) lecture capture tools? (Hits Today: 3 Total: 1869) [Direct Link] [Tags: Accessibility, Interaction, Blackboard Inc., Networks, Online Learning]

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Re: Wednesday

Emma Duke-Williams, June 9, 2011

I've only skim read the article, but given that "'Course/Learning Management Systems' and 'Smartboards & Projectors" came second & third, one does wonder what they were asked and/or what they'd experienced ... [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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Bruce King, June 9, 2011

That students think captured lectures are the most important technology of the day only serves to underline the paucity of so much university-level teaching methodology. Clutching at straws is the mark of the truly desperate! We must be the only profession in the world that employs people to carry out a major part of its core business with absolutely no training or demonstrated professional competence in the work they will spend most of their time on. And it is not the case that we are supposed to be driven by end-user needs, unless you take a broad view of end-user. Universities exist not just for individual benefit, but for social and economic ends as well. Employers, professional bodies and the community at large have a stake in what we do. Students have a right to an opinion, and one that needs to be taken seriously, but they are not in a position to determine how things should be done in any absolute way. While there might well be benefits from using passenger concerns to improve airplane comfort and service, I wouldn't want to fly in a plane designed by passengers. What we need is a mix of stakeholder views and, Lord help us, some professional expertise about evidenced based teaching methodologies. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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michaelrowe, June 10, 2011

I was disappointed to read that students placed such a high value on lecture capture, until I noticed that the paper was released by a company specialising in lecture capture. Now I'm skeptical of the results. In addition, the post you link to looks more like a marketing brochure for Echo360, the company in question.

I feel much better about these results now. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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