Taking the Classical Large Audience Lecture Online Using Tablet Computer and Web Conferencing Facilities

Taking the Classical Large Audience Lecture Online Using Tablet Computer and Web Conferencing Facilities

P. Brockhof (2011).  Taking the Classical Large Audience Lecture Online Using Tablet Computer and Web Conferencing Facilities. 7.

 

During four offerings (September 2008 – May 2011) of the course 02402 Introduction to Statistics for Engineering students at DTU, with an average of 256 students, the lecturing was carried out 100% through a tablet computer combined with the web conferencing facility Adobe Connect (version 7). This enables some extended possibilities as compared to the standard large audience university lecture:

1. Recording and subsequent online sharing of the entire lecture activity

2. Simultaneous (synchronous) viewing of the lecture on different locations (including 
smart phone based viewing)

3. Active student participation through chats and polls.

In this paper it will be described exactly how this can be done using audio and video equipment. The experience from different technical solutions will be described. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the course evaluations are given that documents that students reacted positive to the initiative. The one year hit statistics of almost 10.000 during 2010 on the resulting output lecture videos indicates that the approach has a clear impact. 

 

Authors (New): 
Per Bruun Brockhof
Pages: 
7
Affiliations: 
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Keywords: 
Technology-enhanced learning
web conferencing
video recording
tablet computer
large audience lecturing
teaching statistics
Year: 
2011
Reference: 
Brockhoff, P.B. and Skårhøj K. (2011). YouTube tutorial movie on the use of tablet computer for lecturing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVGEfghFywA: 
Brockhoff, P.B. (2011). Website for introductory statistics lectures in English: http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~pbb/onlinelecturesinstatistics.html: 
Brockhoff, P.B. (2011). Website for introductory statistics lectures in Danish: http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~pbb/statistikonline.html: 
Brockhoff, P.B. (2011). Website for ”next level” statistics lectures in English: http://www.imm.dtu.dk/~pbb/advancedonlinelectures.html: 
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