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The Value of Video Lectures in the Classroom - UPT Study Case

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Abstract

As teachers, we have the responsibility to assist students in understanding the basic concepts and details (when necessary) upon a subject. We must offer them the right materials to achieve the information and the possibility to hear, try, see and think. In our study, conducted in Politehnica University of Timisoara (UPT) environment, we chose a target group consisting of approximately 200 students, divided into two subgroups. We had classroom meetings with all. We offered the first group printed material for home study and to the second group - video lectures. We evaluated students and analyzed the results. We conducted face-to-face post exam discussion and a survey to extract the advantages and disadvantages of video and printed from student’s angle/perspective. This paper provide related work in the field, video lectures design, ours study findings and conclusions.

Keywords

  • Video lectures
  • Classroom
  • Interactivity
  • Blended learning
  • Printed educational resources

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Acknowledgments

This work was partially supported by the strategic grant POSDRU/159/1.5/S/137070 (2014) of the Ministry of National Education, Romania, co-financed by the European Social Fund – Investing in People, within the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013.

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    Mihai Onița, Camelia Ciuclea & Radu Vasiu

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Onița, M., Ciuclea, C., Vasiu, R. (2015). The Value of Video Lectures in the Classroom - UPT Study Case. In: Dregvaite, G., Damasevicius, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 538. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24770-0_12

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