Screencasts in engineering

Williams, H., Norman, A., Reilly, P. , Zhou, H. and Pe, C. (2016) Screencasts in engineering. Journal of Excellence in Teaching and Learning,

Abstract

There is an increasing demand for educational resources that supplement material delivered in lectures and supervision meetings. In some cases, a full lecture recording might be useful; in many cases a short, targeted video of a few slides with audio commentary (a screencast) can achieve this by focussing on the key points. The aim of this project was to develop and evaluate the use of screencasts as part of two Engineering teaching activities. The first was a conventional taught module that is taken by 4th year MEng and MSc students. This was chosen because students have often studied different topics previously, and for many, English is second language. The second case-study was to provide screencasts to help students apply research skills like literature reviewing, referencing and technical report writing specifically to technical reports in Engineering. The study supported many of the advantages suggested in the literature on the use of screencasts in engineering teaching. Pre-session screencasts were found to have particular potential because they encouraged active participation in the subsequent taught session and have great potential when combined with a flipped teaching approach. Such a pre-session screencast would also be useful for students to use after the session as an alternative to a full lecture recording, so the preparation can be argued to be a relatively efficient use of academic time.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Reilly, Dr Paul
• Authors: Williams, H., Norman, A., Reilly, P., Zhou, H., and Pe, C.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics
• Journal Name: Journal of Excellence in Teaching and Learning
• Publisher: University of Leicester
• ISSN: 2517-7575

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