How students use (psychology) lecture recordings: An approach to explore study strategies

Ebbert, D (Daniel)¹, Dutke, S (Stephan)^2
1University of Münster
²University of Muenster

 

Submission type

Oral only

Scheduled

Bouillonzaal, 26-09-2019, 09:00 - 10:30

Keywords

lecture recording, lecture capture, approaches to learning, learning strategies

Summary

More and more universities offer their students access to video recordings of lectures. At the University of Münster, we evaluated the lecture recording service over three semesters in several faculties. A subset of this data was used for a cluster analysis (partitioning around medoids with Gower distance) with the goal of being able to describe distinct usage patterns. Five clusters of students were identified who differed on the amount of lecture recordings watched, the portions of lecture recordings watched completely or in parts, the portions of recordings watched once or multiple times, and the amount of live lectures the students missed. The five clusters were interpreted as representing different ways of utilizing lecture recordings. Students created various ways of using lecture recordings as an enrichment of lecture attendance or used lecture recordings as a means to reduce their live lecture attendance. Students in psychology lectures differed from other students in that the cluster of students who almost completely substituted the attendance in live lectures by watching the recordings was overrepresented compared to the overall cluster distribution. The clustering provides a basis for investigating the usage of lecture recordings in the context of different approaches to learning and learning strategies.

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