On Student Use and Perception of Video Tutorials in an Undergraduate Operations Research Course within an Engineering Curriculum

We consider student use and perception of video tutorials that were produced to serve as virtual office hours for an undergraduate Operations Research (OR) course. The video tutorials complemented the traditional classroom experience by offering different example applications, presentations of solution methods, and examples for different cases of an OR problem (e.g., maximize versus minimize objective). In order to understand student use and perception of these video tutorials, data was collected about the view counts of the videos and through a survey of the students. We analyze the effectiveness of the video tutorials as a learning aid by measuring student use, student perception of the tutorials with respect to their learning experience, and the perceived advantages of the video tutorials.