How would you like to have this kind of feedback from your students? "they are fantastic", "they are amazing. ", "I love them", "They are very VERY helpful," "I think that they were unbelievably effective....." "They were extremely helpful for understanding material and preparing for exams" when surveying students about certain teaching methods? This is the kind of response that we have received from students about our screencasts. This enthusiastic student feedback, coupled with current research that supports the use of screencasts for enhanced student learning, has led us to expand our inventory of screencasts and widely disseminate them. Screencasts are short videos (less than 10 minutes) with narration and are made by digital capture of a tablet PC screen. Screencasts can be used by faculty to supplement their current teaching style, since they are equivalent to what an instructor might present on the board during class. They can be used in combination with textbooks, online reading quizzes, homework assignments, office hours, and exams. They can also be used to create flipped classrooms, where students work under the supervision of the instructor during class, and information delivery is outside of class. They are brief enough to hold students' attention, but complete enough to address a course learning objective. Screencasts can be introductions to a topic, solutions to example problems, explanations of concepts, software tutorials, exam reviews, or mini-lectures. Learning has been reported to be enhanced when learners study carefully worked out examples instead of attempting to do the problems themselves. Learners have easy and immediate access to these instructional materials on their own time.
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