VIDEO AND STORYTELLING IN LEARNING AND TEACHING
Angus MacdonaldElearning Video Technician
CAPE - Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement
Four Types of Video Content in Elearning
(Robin Kay. ‘Exploring the Use of Video Podcasts in Education: A Comprehensive Review of the Literature.’ Computers in Human Behaviour. Volume 28 Issue 3, May 2012)
• Lecture-based or “substitutional” videos• Enhanced videos • Supplementary videos• Worked examples
Substitutional
40%
Enhanced
2%
Supplementary
55%
Enhanced/SupplementaryEnhanced/Substitutional
241 videos on lecture capture server
Worked Examples
3%
Posted on December 14 2012
Other Examples
OU, BBC Bitesize, Channel 4 Learning Zone
Common Craft
The Khan Academy
Coursera
RSA Animate
• Open University, BBC Bitesize, Channel 4 Learning
• Common Craft• The Khan Academy• Coursera• RSA Animate (Royal Society of Art)
Threshold Concepts
Threshold concepts
• Jan Meyer and Ray Land: Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge (2003)
• “Threshold concepts can be considered as akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously inaccessible way of thinking about something. It represents a transformed way of understanding […] without which the learner cannot progress.”
Threshold concepts
• David Perkins: Constructivism and Troublesome Knowledge (2006)
• Troublesome knowledge: “knowledge that is ‘alien’, counter-intuitive or even intellectually absurd at face value.”
Threshold concepts
• Glynis Cousin: An Introduction to Threshold Concepts (2006)
• “Mastery of a threshold concept can be inhibited by the prevalence of ‘common sense’ or intuitive understanding of it. Getting students to reverse their intuitive understandings is also troublesome because the reversal can involve an uncomfortable, emotional repositioning.”
Conclusion
• Worked examples• Visualising theories, concepts and ideas• Threshold concepts• Troublesome knowledge
Thank you …
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