In September
2019 JISC published its report “Digital experience insights survey 2019:
findings from students in UK further and higher education” by Mark
Langer-Crame, Tabetha Newman, Helen Beetham, Clare Killen and Sarah Knight. In
this report the authors provide a detailed picture of how students experience
technology as part of their learning in colleges and universities across the
UK. Almost 30.000 students from Higher and Further Education described in this
survey their attitude towards technologies and their digital learning
experiences. From the response we learn a few interesting things about the students’
attitude towards video in their learning. Between 20 and 25 % of students find
course-related videos very useful to make their learning interactive and
engaging. Surprisingly one of the most popular digital activities for Further Education
students was making notes or recordings: over half them said they did this on a
weekly basis. The most popular digital activity for Higher Education students
was accessing lecture notes or recorded lectures, not less than 5 out of 6 do
this on a weekly basis.
This observation
reinforces the impression that for HE students lecture recordings are an issue
of the highest importance. Students have come to rely on recordings and expect
them to be available in good quality, by which they predominantly mean consistent
audio quality and rapid availability. The provided digital resources that HE
students appreciated for their learning were mainly recorded lectures and other
resources associated with lectures, such as slides and notes. While students in
general seem to be asking for lecture recording to be standard across departments
and courses, a good portion of the student population also refers to the practice
of making personal recordings.
Read the
report on https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/digital-experience-insights-survey-2019-students-uk#