What is it about?
Almost all universities put lectures online after professors deliver them. They're popular with students, and universities invest a lot of money in the technology. But there is remarkably little research into its effects. This paper looks at the effect of offering recorded lectures on attendance, and its much debated decrease, and exam performance.
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Why is it important?
A lot of money is spent on recording lectures, but little is known about whether web lectures contribute to better learning.
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I think that this publication is a first, large step into the effects of recording lectures. Next, I think it's relevant to research methods of delivering web lectures, and to keep using real data to research its effects, not surveys.
Mr Caspar Groeneveld
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This page is a summary of: The use of recorded lectures in education and the impact on lecture attendance and exam performance, British Journal of Educational Technology, May 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12300.
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