Recording Lectures as a Service in a Service Course

Abstract

Courses for non-statistics majors (service courses) play an integral role in teaching statistics and pose some unique challenges. In these courses, students are often undermotivated on the one hand while on the other hand the syllabus frequently is overly crowded. In this manuscript we target the issues arising from the latter problem by making use of technology. The use of screen capture, a fast and easy way of recording lectures, is discussed through an example of an introductory statistics course for first year biology students at Lancaster University. Student feedback on the use of these recordings is discussed.

• CamStudio
• e-learning
• Learning support
• Recording lectures
• Screen capture
• Service course

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank Christian Cable from the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at Lancaster University for his technical advice in this project and Gareth Ridall for sharing his experiences with CamStudio.