Can student-produced video transform university teaching?
Associate professor Bjarne W. Strobel, Academic secretary Alejandro Ceballos, and IT Learning Center have redesigned the summer course; Restoration of European Ecosystems and Fresh Waters.
The summer course is part of the Euro League for Life Science (ELLS) program, and the organization of the course rotates between the ELLS universities. The course comprises four to five weeks of full time study; two to three weeks distance learning as preparation for the two week intensive field course. Read more here
The overall objective of the redesign was to modernize and improve the quality of the students learning experience, by exploring the potentials of video and online tools to create flexible, student-centered and student-activating education.
The student produced three types of videos during the course:
- Video one was independently produced by the students, guided by online tasks and instructions. These videos were student produced learning material, showing cases from all over Europe. The videos was collected and presented in a "visual database" in Googl maps. See the public videos here
- Video two was produced in groups during the field course. Video two replaced a larger written assignment.
- Video three was produced in groups during the field course. The videos was an experimental field exercise, and the production was guided by a “dogma concept“, meaning that everything should be done in the field.
Read more about the students evaluation, and the project deliverables here
Video type 1: Student-produced learning resources
Video type 2: Larger fieldwork assignment
Video type 3: Dogma guided field excercise
Video type 3: behind the camera
ITLC, - last update:26 September 2011