Do Screencasts Really Work? Assessing Student Learning through Instructional Screencasts

摘要

As libraries experiment with new instructional technologies, questions about the effectiveness of those technologies emerge. This paper focuses on an instructional screencast assessment process completed with undergraduate students at the University of Michigan Undergraduate Library. It introduces a potential model for assessment and discusses the assessment results indicating whether learning was accomplished. It also includes an analysis of challenges that were overcome and shares the best practices identified as a result of the assessment.