{"id":2939,"date":"2014-02-17T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsletter.alt.ac.uk\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2023-01-05T14:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T14:38:51","slug":"lecture-capture-sometimes-its-better-to-be-heardand-not-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/altc.alt.ac.uk\/blog\/2014\/02\/lecture-capture-sometimes-its-better-to-be-heardand-not-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Capture \u2013 Sometimes it\u2019s better to be heard\u2026and not seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my work as an educational technologist in Higher Education (and with academic\/teaching experience in HE) I am more frequently receiving queries and requests from teaching staff who want to make a video of their lecture so it can be available to their students on their module site in the institutional VLE. A request to which I respond with the following (or thereabouts) for them to consider:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Before embarking on the creation of a video of your lecture or presentation to be used as a learning object, it is important that you consider if there is a \u2018pedagogic\u2019 necessity to create this type of resource?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Is the knowledge content of the lecture such that a video of you presenting it makes it more likely that students will be able to understand it\/apply it or do whatever it is that they are required to do with it in order to achieve the learning outcomes?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Does your visible presentation style (how you comport yourself as you present your lecture) increase the potential for students to achieve the required learning outcomes for this particular session?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In general \u2013 is this method of re-presenting your lecture\u00a0<b><i>imperative<\/i><\/b>\u00a0to the learning requirements and outcomes for the session? Are the students going to learn more from engaging with this learning object<b><i>\u00a0if they can see you in it?<\/i><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If your answer is\u00a0<b>NO<\/b>\u00a0to the above, then you may well be better creating an \u2018audio\u2019 recording of your talk and supporting this with slides\/images from your presentation.<\/p>\n<p>I have come across many examples of lecture videos wherein it would have been so much better not to be able to see the presenter, where a slideshow with voice-over would have been a more effective approach. The fundamental issue here is not one of visual quality \u2013 it\u2019s not such a big deal if the video camera has been setup with a bit of a lean to it, or there are some tatty posters hanging on the walls behind the presenter \u2013 sure, these factors can lend an air of \u2018quality\u2019 to the presentation (and may be of concern to the marketing dept. if the content is potentially accessible to an \u2018external\u2019 audience) \u2013 but \u2018all that glitters is not\u00a0<i>pedagogic<\/i>\u00a0gold\u2019. What is key is the \u2018content\u2019 that is being presented, and how it is articulated for the most effective pedagogic ends via this particular medium of presentation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sometimes it is better to be heard\u2026and not seen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This post touches on some broader issues concerning the notions of \u2018technology driven education\u2019 vs. \u2018education driven technology\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The increased desire for academic teaching staff in HE (and perhaps in other education sectors) to engage with technology for teaching and learning is in principal good news, as enhancing learning through technology (ELT) offers some exciting spaces in which education can undergo innovation and evolution and allow us to explore and establish new educational models. However, the demand for creating technology enhanced learning \u2018things\u2019 is not always based on a robust pedagogic imperative but can tend towards that of\u00a0<b>using technology for technology\u2019s sake<\/b>. There is a danger that if we do not confront the use of technology in education with a critical pedagogic eye at the point of local inception (that is when we as individual educators decide that we want to use a specific technology or technologies for teaching and enhancing student learning) we may simply establish practices in which our pedagogic energies (the time we invest in the development of educational things) are invested in the production of technology-driven learning objects that have no real educational value, and that do not fully exploit the innovative developmental potentials, and the means to directly enhance teaching and learning that ELT can offer.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/scalino\/3908762409\/\">No video sign<\/a> by scalino on Flickr (CC BY-NC)<\/p>\n<p><em>This post was originally published on the <a title=\"east midlands learning technologists\" href=\"http:\/\/eastmidslt.wordpress.com\/2014\/01\/15\/lecture-capture-sometimes-its-better-to-be-heardand-not-seen\/\">East Midlands Learning Technologists blog<\/a> and is re-posted here with the author&#8217;s permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"info\">Rob Weale,\u00a0ELT Project Officer,\u00a0Centre for Enhancing Learning through Technology (<a href=\"http:\/\/celt.our.dmu.ac.uk\/\">CELT<\/a>),\u00a0De Montfort University<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\">If you enjoyed reading this article we invite you join the\u00a0<a title=\"Link to membership page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alt.ac.uk\/get-involved\/membership\">Association for Learning Technology (ALT)<\/a>\u00a0as an individual member, and to encourage your own organisation to join ALT as an organisational or sponsoring member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In my work as an educational technologist in Higher Education (and with academic\/teaching experience in HE) I am more frequently receiving queries and requests from teaching staff who want to make a video of their lecture so it can be available to their students on their module site in the institutional VLE. 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