Presentation used during the Media and Learning conference 2013 in Brussel (note: I did not show the last 2 slides, they were there in case I needed to explain the tagging experiment).

1. Students and recorded lectures
can you count on them?
Pierre Gorissen
Fontys University of Applied Sciences
The Netherlands

2. • Eindhoven, Tilburg, Venlo, Sitt
ard, Den Bosch, Veghel
• 40,000 students,
• 4,000 staff
• 100 Bachelor programs
• 24 Master programs,
• 11 Assoc. Degree programs

3. Research into the use of
recorded lectures
• How do students use the
recordings?
– What do they say?
– What do they do?
• Usage paterns?
• Can we support their use with
tags?

4. Recorded Lectures

5. How do students use them?
• Online questionnaire
– 1,122 students
– 7 courses
• Interviews
• Data on the server:
– 1,500,000 lines of log data
– Filter / Clean / Analyse

6. Some results
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Most students watch at home
No major technical issues
Students want all lectures to be recorded
Quality of lecture has no major influence on use
Students prefer live lectures
Differences in use by different groups of
students

7. Results
100%
Students
80%
60%
40%
20%
0%
< 10%
Questionnaires
Vragenlijst
Log data
Logbestanden
10% - 25%
25% - 50%
50% - 75%
% of recording viewed
> 75%

8. Usage Patterns
③
450
400
Number of sessions
350
300
250
200
①
②
④
150
100
50
0
Year – Week number

9. We all love pretty charts…
But what do they mean?

10. For example…
• What is a “view” ?
• Who’s views do you count ?
– “Anonymous” ?
• What recordings do you count ?
• Is “more” = “better” ?
• …
• Also important if you are comparing your results
with other research!!

11. Challenges..

12. Take away points…

13. Want to know more?!
http://recordedlectures.com/
P.Gorissen@fontys.nl

14. Tagging experiment #1

15. Tagging experiment #2

16. Conclusions
• Students view shorter with tags
• Use of tags increases when exam approaches
• Students using tags score better for the exam
• Students…
– Can tag good enough
– Don’t all tag the same
– Don’t tag the same as the expert