Wednesday, April 25, 2012

New TED-Ed site assists classroom use of video

Here's an item from The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus blog that might be of interest to instructors who use or want to use video in their classrooms. New TED-Ed Site Turns YouTube Videos Into ‘Flipped’ Lessons reports that the nonprofit TED organization unveiled a new website today, TED-Ed, to help professors use videos as a truly interactive feature in the classroom.
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  1. There has been much discussion - and likely will be more in the future - about the role of video/webcast/etc in undergraduate education.

    I teach the best I know how, and in a way that I believe helps students. I teach large enrollment courses (>250), I do not use ppt, I do not post online notes, and I give hard exams. I do each and everyone one of these things because I have read studies indicating their importance to student learning. I may be wrong, but I try to make classroom choices based upon what teaching research suggests to be 'true', rather than what makes me popular or is easy.

    So I ask those here promoting video/web in the classroom two questions:

    1. Can you please list some peer reviewed studies indicating these approaches enhance student learning? I need to know, as a teacher, if I should learn these things.

    2. If they do enhance learning, what do we want UA to be? Are we to be a school that uses videos, or are we to be the school that produces them? Personally, I prefer we be a leader in education, and not a consumer.

    JC Cahill
    Biological Sciences

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  2. Great questions! I am looking forward to reading some responses. I note that there are many campuses around the world in which the use of high-tech media etc is discouragers, or at least not encouraged.
    One series of conferences that I occasionally attend disallows the use of technology, including power points. They prefer that attendees listen. The same surely applies to teaching. Which leads me to wonder whether we are 'dumbing down' our students by our over-reliance in the use of technology in the classroom?

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