Educational video services in universities: A systematic effectiveness analysis

Abstract

Our university has offered a massive educational video service since 2010, as part of a blended learning model that allows students to balance active participation in the classroom with remote access to video-recorded lectures. In these years, we have collected a huge amount of very detailed data about the students' access to the service. Together with additional information that characterize a university system (e.g. students' performance or course population), these data represent a precious ground set to assess the educational model. The paper describes an experimental set to profile the use of the educational video service, whose results will contribute to improve the model. Specifically the paper analyzes the students' service use relatively to different transversal course characteristics, such as level, main topic, population, success rate. As a result, it outlines the profile of the "ideal" courses for which students highly appreciate the service. This information will help educational designers to select the future courses to be included in the service, but it will also give directions on the sectors where improvements are necessary. Finally, the paper experimentally demonstrates a positive impact of the educational video service on students' performance, and specifically on the exam success rate.

Determinants of the transition to upper secondary school: differences between immigrants and Italians

“…Results show higher learning outcomes for students who regularly watched the video lectures, primarily 61 in terms of the number of acquired credits. This is consistent with the conclusions drawn in Cagliero et al (2017), who report higher student's success rates following the introduction of an analogous system to provide video-recorded lessons to complement in-class learning. In our experience, the beneficial is particularly pronounced for undergraduate students, although they show a more limited recourse to the platform than graduate students.…”

Predicting Student Academic Performance by Means of Associative Classification

“…The access to the video lectures of a course is allowed to all the enrolled students. Hence, students can exploit video lectures as complementary materials in addition to in-class lectures [43]. Since 2010 the university has video-recorded in the classroom all the courses of the first year of the B.S.…”

Retroalimentación de los estudiantes sobre el uso de vídeos docentes como apoyo al estudio de la Termodinámica

“…Diversas investigaciones han demostrado que un uso adecuado de los vídeos docentes en la educación superior puede involucrar activamente a los estudiantes y conducirles hacia un mejor aprendizaje (Tiernan, 2015;Cagliero et al, 2017;Elgeddawy, 2018;Carmichael et al, 2018;Uyulgan, 2018;Sandoval et al, 2018;Ali, 2019;Dos Santos, 2019;Voronkin, 2019). Para adaptarse mejor a las distintas maneras de aprender de los estudiantes se considera fundamental que se utilicen diversos recursos didácticos y que existan claras sinergias entre todos ellos.…”