Lecture Recording Success in Academic Face- to- Face Teaching

ABSTRACT

Hundreds of academic institutions around the world dedicated considerable funding to lecture recording to accompany face-to-face teaching prior to the massive transition to distance education due to Covid-19. Furthermore, there is reason to believe that they will continue to do so after teaching will return to the physical classroom. Thus, a methodological examination of the success of lecture recordings as augmentation to face-to-face teaching should be of managerial interest. In this study, five success categories of lecture recording in a college were evaluated based on the information system success model promulgated by DeLone & McLean (1992). Results obtained through a campus-wide questionnaire and system log files showed relatively low usage of the system by students, who gave a somewhat low evaluation of system quality, information quality, and general satisfaction, but a higher assessment for the contribution of the system to their learning. Analysis also found significant correlations between success categories suggested by DeLone & McLean, with some exceptions. These results raise questions regarding the high-cost investments in lecture recording. These questions and the implication of the findings for research and higher education decision makers are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• Higher education
• lecture recordings
• information system success
• satisfaction
• perceived learning

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Molly R. Handel, Pnina Bettan, Matan Bruchim and Lior Galula for their help in collecting the data for this research.

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Availability of Data and Material

The datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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Funding

The authors have no funding to report.