Using vodcasts to enhance teaching: Experience of using SPUR students

Daniel KingScott Lawley

Project aims

• Bring Organizational Behaviour to life• Reach ‘digital native’ students• Create teaching resource• Online, on demand resources students can use to

enhance learning• Link theory to practice• High utilisation – 800 students + resource for

other universities• Lectures and self-study

Expected students experience

Tasks1. Booking and arranging visits2. Conducting interviews3. Edit and write vignettesSkills developed• networking, interviewing, communication,

teamwork, and organisational skills

What we were told before conducting interviews

• Content matters – production quality not that important

• Get student voice – other students relate to them

• Students relate to video content

What we did

• Employed 2 SPUR students who worked together

• Conducted X interviews• Also some ‘big name’ interviews– Stephen Hester– Joe Greenwell

• Linked to every chapter in textbook• http://global.oup.com/uk/orc/busecon/busines

s/king_lawley/01student/videos/

Our experience

Considerably harder than we expected• Video quality did matter – poor sound quality

meant that not used material in lectures• Managing students over the summer difficult –

particularly when had pressing schedule writing the textbook

• Very time-consuming managing students, editing and producing the videos

• Not been as widely taken-up as we hoped

Further (unexpected) challenges

• Publishers satisficing• Technical restrictions of file size • Disaggregate interviewees experiences into

topics

Lessons Learned

• Challenges of managing SPUR student during summer– Our availability– Level of support needed

• Vodcasts– Considering final output in interview design– Short sections – to be edited– Location key – i.e. café impossible to hear– Multiple skills needed – interview/subject knowledge

and production knowledge

Wider lessons

• Resources– Proper camera with suitable microphone

• Training– Planning, recording, editing, and post-production

of videos complex skill• Time– Highly time-consuming. If university want to

produce such teaching resources need to provide lecturers time to produce them