Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Flipped video and the value of asynchronous playback.

I had not thought about it this way: I have been working on adapting a program from classroom to blended/hybrid (20 years in this business and still not sure of a definitive difference between these two), and ran across the document below in a MOOC. It struck me reading this that part of the value added by recording parts of a classroom lecture and using this in the LMS is the ability to emulate what is done in an asynchronous discussion, but with video. Students have the ability to replay portions of the video to catch content and nuance that they might miss in the classroom. I think we all go into meetings or classes and from time to time miss critical ideas or cues because the cell phone vibrates or some other distraction occurs.

If lecture videos are chunked, and edited for relevant content, they become potentially a more valuable learning opportunity than a simple video capture by itself.


http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-flipped-classrooms