Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders
How Students Use Video Recordings of College Lectures (Part 1 of 2)
Podcast Video | Posted by Phil Leigh on April 2, 2008
If you would like to learn how leading colleges and universities are using audio-visual recordings of professor lectures, this interview is for you. (Part 1 of 2).
Subject: Our guest today is Mark Jones who is the CEO of Echo 360. His company provides an electronic appliance enabling college professors to record their lectures for two purposes. First, is to make them available to attending-students on-demand so that they might review the material whenever desired. Second, is for use in distance learning so that students at any remote location, including their homes, may take classes from respected universities.Summary of Part 1: Part 1 provides an overview of audio-visual lecture capture including an example of a lecture with video of the professor and a whiteboard illustration of a mathematical problem. This segues into a discussion of the benefits of audio-visual lecture capture and the types of classes that are most likely to gain the most.
Next we discuss two case studies of how lecture capture improved student grades in chemistry courses. One example was at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell and the other at Case Western Reserve. Finally, we examine the benefits to the faculty.
Phil’s Take: I have not a shadow of doubt that the ability to replay audio-visual lectures would have been a significant aid to me in undergraduate classes like Calculus, Physics, and Electromagnetic Fields & Waves, among other technical fields. Often I found the material difficult to absorb in a single lecture and was never comfortable taking notes since the very act of writing the note might lead me to miss an important point that the lecturer was making simultaneously. As a result, it is not surprising that Echo 360 discovered students at the University of Massachusetts (Lowell) and Case Western Reserve made better grades in a chemistry class when audio-visual recordings of the lectures were made available on demand.
Moreover, since the recorded lectures keep more students enrolled, they tend to lift revenues for the Lecture-Capture colleges. Additionally, the schools can get added revenues from the lectures by launching online education initiatives enabling students from remote locations to be included.
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Another great product …. thanks
Echo 360 is a great company. This product will be extremely useful for professors and students. Professors will see ways in which they need to improve their body language, voice tone, and overall presentation of classroom material. Students will be able to pause and rewind lectures.
This product will prove to be immensely useful.
Hi,
I’m a student at the University of Tennessee and I **WISH** that my courses had this technology available and in use for students. Unfortunately, too often, I continually come across professors that are not interested in using these technologies and prefer to stick to old fashioned lectures (their reasons are usually very silly such as not wanting to make it easier for students to not attend a live lecture). Some professors fortunately use powerpoint for lectures and I am thrilled when they actually post their lecture slides online (we use blackboard, which is barely used to its maximum potential by my professors). I’m seriously envious of big league universities, such as Berkeley, who have webcasts of lectures online. I hope that this lecture software will be in use at UT someday. Really, I think that by not having video lectures in use now is a sign of slacking behind the times.
Bonnie
Has anyone tried using this Echo 360 at a High School level?