Pre-Recorded Lectures, Live Online Lectures, and Student Academic Achievement

A survey of first-year biology student opinions regarding live lectures and recorded lectures as learning tools.

A cohort of first-year biology students was surveyed regarding their opinions and viewing habits for live and recorded lectures. Most respondents (87%) attended live lectures as a rule (attenders), with 66% attending more than two-thirds of the lectures. In contrast, only 52% accessed recordings and only 13% viewed more than two-thirds of the available recordings. Respondents regarded lectures ...

Lectures

Paananen & Simpson: Using Web Accessible Pre-recorded Lectures

This project aims to evaluate the effect of using web accessible recorded lectures and slides as a supplement to traditional face-to-face teaching for International students. Specifically, we examine whether the use of blended learning has an impact on students’ exam results. In our study, held in accounting classes, we have used traditional teaching methods (lectures and seminars) during the f...

“ But they won ’ t come to lectures ... ” The impact of audio recorded lectures on student experience and attendance

The move to increasingly flexible platforms for student learning and experience through provision of online lecture recordings is often interpreted by educators as students viewing attendance at lectures as optional. The trend toward the use of this technology is often met with resistance from some academic staff who argue that student attendance will decline. This study aimed to explore studen...

Does digital scholarship through online lectures affect student learning?

University lectures are increasingly recorded or reproduced and made available to students online. This paper aggregates and critically reviews the associated literature, thematically organised in response to four questions. In response to the first question does student attendance decrease when online content is made available research indicates that students primarily use digital content for ...