Student Survey on Video Lectures for College Physics 1—Mechanics
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Brian Woodahl
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[1] Indiana University Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN
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- Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 62, Nº. 7, 2024, págs. 583-586
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The COVID-19 pandemic, in particular the social-distancing measures of the 2020–2021 academic calendar, forced many departments,1–4 including ours, to present online courses for introductory physics. These online courses could be presented synchronously using an environment offered by, for instance, Zoom, or in an asynchronous presentation, using prerecorded video lectures hosted, for example, by YouTube. For this particular research, we used the latter, the asynchronous presentation using prerecorded video lectures. The goal of this study was to determine whether students found these video lectures to be an acceptable method of delivery of the course content compared with the traditional in-person lectures. It is important to obtain meaningful data as to whether one of the methods of presentation is significantly worse than the other. Furthermore, if the two methods are found to be equal as far as the learning is concerned, there may be an opportunity for increased enrollments of students that can only take the course asynchronously. For example, the student may be required to work during the scheduled class meeting times.
