Abstract
Digital videos have an important and increasing presence in student learning. They play a key role especially in subjects with high mathematical content, such as physics. However, creating videos is a time-consuming activity for teachers, who are usually not experts in video creation. Therefore, it is important to know which kinds of videos are perceived as more useful by students and why. In this paper we analyze students’ perception of videos in an introductory physics course of engineering with over 200 first year students in a 100% online university, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Students had 142 videos available of several types. We followed a qualitative methodology from a ground theory perspective and performed semi-structured interviews. Results show that students found videos as the most valued resource, although they considered that videos cannot substitute text documents. Students valued human elements and found them in videos where the hands of the professor appear. Finally, students consumed videos according to the course schedule, visualized the whole video the first time, and consumed it later according to further deliveries and exams. The main contributions of this paper were analyzing the perception of students from a qualitative perspective in an introductory course of physics in engineering, obtaining the main elements that make videos useful for students and showing that videos with hands are valued by students.
Highlights
Nowadays, the use of videos is the most common type of social medium [1] and is used in class and published online [2]
The main contributions of this paper were analyzing the perception of students from a qualitative perspective in an introductory course of physics in engineering, obtaining the main elements that make videos useful for students and showing that videos with hands are valued by students
Our main hypothesis is that creating videos filming the hands of the teacher while they are writing on a paper satisfies those requirements, since they look similar to how teachers explain when a student attends to discuss items with them privately
Summary
The use of videos is the most common type of social medium [1] and is used in class and published online [2]. Our main hypothesis is that creating videos filming the hands of the teacher while they are writing on a paper (or on a blackboard) satisfies those requirements, since they look similar to how teachers explain when a student attends to discuss items with them privately. We call these videos, videos with hands. We think that videos with hands satisfy another important aspect which is the emotional link with the teacher [6], and the provision of non-verbal communication [7]
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