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Unleash Your Inner Spielberg When Creating Online Lectures
As online courses and lectures become a more common practice in higher ed, educators have looked for the best possible ways to engage their students online.
Brian Klaas of the Center for Teaching & Learning with Technology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Heath, spoke at EduComm 2011 and shared tips on online lecture capture that have been influenced by his background in theater.
“Online lectures are a simple reality of university life,” Klaas said. “How you tell a story is just as important as what the story is...think about directing, editing and presentation.”
While many professors use Microsoft Powerpoint, Klaas said it can lead to unengaged lectures.
“Powerpoint is a trap,” he said. “The basic template that we're given in Powerpoint is 'title and bullet points' and that's not effective information dissemination and there's a lot of problems with it...Our obligation as educations is to present a compelling story and to present it in a compelling way.”
To make slides more interesting, Klaas recommends using higher quality sound and music, create a quicker pace that's broken into segments and remove heavy charts and images for stronger focus.
“Slides should be there to re-enforce what you're saying, not be the be all, end all...less is more, it's more effective and help students get what they need out of it,” he said.
Klaas concluded he presentation by noting the strong results these techniques have yielded: “Once we really work with faculty and show them the direct benefit of these techniques...they can see that it has a direct, measurable impact on student satisfaction and learning outcomes and find that the time they put in is worth the reward that comes out of it.”
Brian Klaas of the Center for Teaching & Learning with Technology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Heath, spoke at EduComm 2011 and shared tips on online lecture capture that have been influenced by his background in theater.
“Online lectures are a simple reality of university life,” Klaas said. “How you tell a story is just as important as what the story is...think about directing, editing and presentation.”
While many professors use Microsoft Powerpoint, Klaas said it can lead to unengaged lectures.
“Powerpoint is a trap,” he said. “The basic template that we're given in Powerpoint is 'title and bullet points' and that's not effective information dissemination and there's a lot of problems with it...Our obligation as educations is to present a compelling story and to present it in a compelling way.”
To make slides more interesting, Klaas recommends using higher quality sound and music, create a quicker pace that's broken into segments and remove heavy charts and images for stronger focus.
“Slides should be there to re-enforce what you're saying, not be the be all, end all...less is more, it's more effective and help students get what they need out of it,” he said.
Klaas concluded he presentation by noting the strong results these techniques have yielded: “Once we really work with faculty and show them the direct benefit of these techniques...they can see that it has a direct, measurable impact on student satisfaction and learning outcomes and find that the time they put in is worth the reward that comes out of it.”
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