Making the Decision to Provide Enhanced Podcasts to Post-Secondary Science Students |
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Authors: | Jane Holbrook and Christine Dupont |
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Institution: | (1) Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1 Ontario, Canada;(2) Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1 Ontario, Canada |
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Abstract: | Providing students with supplementary course materials such as audio podcasts, enhanced podcasts, video podcasts and other
forms of lecture-capture video files after a lecture is now a common occurrence in many post-secondary courses. We used an
online questionnaire to ask students how helpful enhanced podcasts were for a variety of course activities and how important
having access to the enhanced podcasts was in their decision to miss classes. Student responses from two courses, one introductory
and one advanced, were compared. Students in the introductory Genetics course reported that having access to enhanced podcasts
was “very important” in their decision to miss class more often (39%) than those in the advanced Microbiology course (20%).
They also reported missing more classes than students in the advanced course. Students in both courses found the enhanced
podcasts helpful for a range of learning activities. First year students who missed just a few classes and those who missed
many classes both found the enhanced podcasts to be very helpful for learning activities. We argue that creating these resources
is a good choice for instructors irrespective of the level of the course they teach and that the potential value of these
resources, particularly for first year students, outweighs any impact that having access to supplementary enhanced podcasts
of the lectures may have on class attendance. |
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