Abstract
The OpenFING Project is an initiative by students for students, based on the creation and use of a digital video library of higher education courses, where students record video from standard lectures. The project attempts to address issues such as overcrowded lecture halls and students who work full time and thus cannot attend normal lectures. Today OpenFING seeks its consolidation along with an undergraduate introductory course on audiovisual and multimedia production. The project must be considered as a basis on which professors and students can develop teaching and learning innovations respectively, including different computer tools to support teaching and learning. In this article we describe the current status of OpenFING, six years after its creation; we describe the first study of how students and teachers perceive the initiative; and we conclude suggesting further developments.
Highlights
Many universities broadcast their courses openly on the internet as part of a policy that embraces the publication of imparted knowledge (some examples are the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018) and The Open University’s initiative OpenLearn (The Open University, 2018))
The questions were addressed to Facultad de Ingeniería (FING) students, but the analysis revealed that OpenFING is not exclusively used by students from the institution
From 2016 onwards, the OpenFING project began to be articulated by different actors from the institution: the group of students who coordinate the project, learning technologists from UEFI, professors from FING and Facultad de Información y Comunicación (FIC) as lecturers of the IPAM course, with the explicit support of the deanery of FING
Summary
OpenFING: A Project based on a Digital Library of Recorded Courses. The OpenFING Project is an initiative by students for students, based on the creation and use of a digital video library of higher education courses, where students record video from standard lectures. The project must be considered as a basis on which professors and students can develop teaching and learning innovations respectively, including different computer tools to support teaching and learning. In this article we describe the current status of OpenFING, six years after its creation; we describe the first study of how students and teachers perceive the initiative; and we conclude suggesting further developments
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