1. Students’ Perspective on Teaching and Learning using Video Technology The Open University of Israel Shoham – Department of Technologies In Distance Education Department of Assessment and training DIVERSE, Portland, Main, July, 2010 Yael Steimberg, Eva Guterman, Boaz Mermelstein, Relly Brickner, Yael Alberton, Ronit Sagi, Tsily Liebermann

2. The Open University of Israel Facts Open admissions Distance learning 45,000 students 700 courses Synchronous Asynchronous Face to Face

3. Synchronous learning at the OUI 5 online video studios 5 video conference classrooms 80 courses with online video groups 40 Virtual Class (WebEx) groups 4500 students 22,000 unique users Intro to Statistics

4. Synchronous learning at the OUI (live & VOD) Hours Fall 2010 – 226,870 hours Final exam.“B term” Weeks

5. The Video Survey – Fall 2010 (Initial findings) F2FVideo N=1,739n=1,331 Yes (Rec.) N=1,490N=95 No (N0 Rec ) Survey Population: Fall 2010 74 courses 17,828 students 13,824 face to face stu. (24% response, n= 4,655) 4004 live video stu. (37% response) 14,058 unique video users Survey: 50 items (clustered) Open questions Learning group Watched recorded lessons

6. Students’ Characteristics - Credit Video Group - Credit F2F Group – Credit (*) Low usage of video in the entry-level courses (*Significant)

7. Academic Departments Video Group F2F Group

8. The Live Video Groups: Registration and Participation Registered to live video Group

9. The Live Video Groups: Registration and Participation Participated in live video Group

10. The Live Video Groups: Registration and Participation Why I did not participate the live video lesson

11. Students’ attitudes (All significant)

12. Students’ attitudes: Video vs. F2F Live video tutoring can replace F2F tutoring F2F tutoring is more efficient than Video tutoring (All significant)

13. Students attitudes: Learning with Video Watching video tutoring may improve understanding (All significant)

14. Students’ attitudes: Learning with Video Learning with video can be a positive experience (All significant)

15. Students’ attitudes: Learning with Video Would you consider registering for a video course? (*) Video Group / Credit (*Significant)

16. Students’ achievements Courses’ video clips viewed: 14,058 unique users (by username) 208,122 views* Survey population’s (n=17,828) sub-pop.: Watched more than 40% of the clips Watched less than 40% of the clips Examined parameters (for each group): Attended final exam. (%) Passed the final exam. (%) Mean score Unique users *View: one user watching one clip one time or more during one day

17. Students’ achievements (Samples from initial findings 1 ) Watched more then 40% of the course's clips Watched less then 40% of the course's clips 1 All three are introductory courses

18. Summary (initial summery) Past usage is the best predict for future use Novice students have low tendency to watch video Active exposure to video is needed (and to technologies at large) Different patterns of use between academic departments Is it content related? Is it academic stuff’s attitude related? Routine timeframe is impotent Persuade students to participate synchronous remote lessons Create self-learning synchronous groups (virtual classroom, Skype, etc’) F2F recorded lessons Vs. remote video groups recorded lessons Most of OUI video lessons were especially made for remote students Asynchronous use of recorded lessons Accessibility (“is it there when & where the student need it?”) Relevancy (“if the teacher is not using the video for teaching, student will not use it for learning”)

19. Thank You Boaz Mermelshtien, boazme@openu.ac.il