Connecting self study and lectures

We indicated exactly what students would need to do in terms of self study in preparation of each thematic day (VGM/GBO/RP): read specific literature and watch a number of videos in preparation of the lectures which were shared via Brightspace.

The self study replaced about 45 minutes of lecture time while the passing rates stayed comparable (75%) to the regular version.

The new setup of the course required quite some time investment. It takes quite some time if you would need to develop videos etc from scratch. We were able to reuse existing video materials. And we were able to reduce time in our face-to-face moments with students (9 lecture hours). The passing rate of the exams (75%) was comparable to the regular version. However I don’t think all students used the videos in full. Perhaps the necessity to watch the videos was nog high enough for them yet.

I would recommend to spend time on improving communication with your students on why they are expected to work this way.

Our ambition is to integrate this approach with all themes offered during this courses and presenting them as one complete entity, starting the first education period of 2020/2021.I think it is very important to provide a clear line in this way of offering the course contents. We only tried out this approach in 2-3 themes, so I expect the full effect has not been achieved yet.

We would like to provide more support to the thematic main teachers in this course, such as ‘how to write a script’. We were very happy with the help we received from our student assistant and recommend to make use of student assistants in redesigning and redeveloping your course.

For a next course run, we aim to increase the feasibillity of the amount of contents for students, and perhaps to better indicate the amount of time each part would take them in Brightspace.

We used Brightsppace to let students know what was expected of them and tried to integrad quizzes offered in EdX.