Students and recorded lectures can you count on them?

Pierre Gorissen

Fontys University of Applied Sciences

The Netherlands

• Eindhoven, Tilburg, Venlo, Sittard, Den Bosch, Veghel

• 40,000 students, • 4,000 staff • 100 Bachelor programs• 24 Master programs,• 11 Assoc. Degree programs

Research into the use of recorded lectures

• How do students use the recordings?– What do they say?– What do they do?

• Usage paterns?• Can we support their use with

tags?

Recorded Lectures

How do students use them?

• Online questionnaire– 1,122 students– 7 courses

• Interviews• Data on the server:

– 1,500,000 lines of log data– Filter / Clean / Analyse

Some results

• Most students watch at home• No major technical issues• Students want all lectures to be recorded• Quality of lecture has no major influence on use• Students prefer live lectures• Differences in use by different groups of

students

Results

< 10%10% - 25%

25% - 50%50% - 75%

> 75%

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%

100%

VragenlijstLogbestanden % of recording viewed

Stud

ents

Questionnaires

Log data

Usage Patterns

2009-36

2009-39

2009-42

2009-45

2009-48

2009-51

2010-01

2010-04

2010-07

2010-10

2010-13

2010-16

2010-19

2010-22

2010-25

2010-28

2010-31

2010-34

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Year – Week number

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f ses

sion

s ①

② ④

③

We all love pretty charts…

But what do they mean?

For example…

• What is a “view” ? • Who’s views do you count ?

– “Anonymous” ?

• What recordings do you count ?• Is “more” = “better” ?• …

• Also important if you are comparing your results with other research!!

Challenges..

Take away points…

Want to know more?!

http://recordedlectures.com/

P.Gorissen@fontys.nl

Tagging experiment #1

Tagging experiment #2

Conclusions

• Students view shorter with tags

• Use of tags increases when exam approaches

• Students using tags score better for the exam

• Students… – Can tag good enough

– Don’t all tag the same

– Don’t tag the same as the expert