One of the biggest draws of online schooling is its convenience. This convenience can be especially appealing to students with unique personal situations, students who live in remote areas, students who may have responsibilities within the home that prevent them from being able to attend school regularly (such as caring for a child or ailing family member), or students who themselves may have medical issues that prevent them from being able to attend a traditional brick and mortar school. Online education can provide a flexible alternative that does not sacrifice the quality of the education the student receives.
We've been focusing on the tools educators can use to provide synchronous learning, to help students engage with instructors and other members of the class. It is asynchronous learning, however, that lends the convenience to the online schooling model. One effective way to provide students with this asynchronous approach is simply to capture a lecture and allow the student to listen to or view it on his own time, at his own pace. In the online classroom, this approach can be extremely useful. The instructor can make sure to include every single important piece of information into the lecture, and can edit the lecture to improve it if need be. The student can either watch or listen to the lecture as many times as he deems necessary. As opposed to a traditional classroom where a student may be able to hear a teacher deliver a lecture only once, with lecture capture, the student can take in the lecture and its information over and over again until he has absorbed and digested it.
Lecture capture tools such as Kaltura may change the way teachers approach their teaching by allowing the teachers to focus attention on providing individual student feedback, targeting areas of need, analyzing data, and communicating with individual students. Once a teacher has perfected a lecture, there will be more time to focus on other responsibilities. Teachers can streamline instruction not just in an effort to work less or be lazy later, but to utilize the time that lecture capture may free up to take measures to improve student performance and achievement.
We've been focusing on the tools educators can use to provide synchronous learning, to help students engage with instructors and other members of the class. It is asynchronous learning, however, that lends the convenience to the online schooling model. One effective way to provide students with this asynchronous approach is simply to capture a lecture and allow the student to listen to or view it on his own time, at his own pace. In the online classroom, this approach can be extremely useful. The instructor can make sure to include every single important piece of information into the lecture, and can edit the lecture to improve it if need be. The student can either watch or listen to the lecture as many times as he deems necessary. As opposed to a traditional classroom where a student may be able to hear a teacher deliver a lecture only once, with lecture capture, the student can take in the lecture and its information over and over again until he has absorbed and digested it.
Lecture capture tools such as Kaltura may change the way teachers approach their teaching by allowing the teachers to focus attention on providing individual student feedback, targeting areas of need, analyzing data, and communicating with individual students. Once a teacher has perfected a lecture, there will be more time to focus on other responsibilities. Teachers can streamline instruction not just in an effort to work less or be lazy later, but to utilize the time that lecture capture may free up to take measures to improve student performance and achievement.
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