Testimonials – Dr. Jamie O’Neill

As well as using the 4-person studio to deliver online classes to his postgraduate students, Jamie also used this space to deliver live tutorials to undergraduate students of the module, Financial Accounting 3. This module has an enrolment of approximately 205 students. For the delivery of this module, Jamie recorded the lecture material for the students, chunking each weekly lecture into short recorded segments and releasing them each week via the module on Brightspace. Students were expected to review the videos and, as a means to engage them with the module content, they were requested to attempt a weekly quiz based on the lecture material. Jamie recorded his content in the 2 person studio, which allowed him not only to add video and slides, but to record worked examples using the document camera as part of the weekly lecture content.

Because Jamie opted to record his lecture content in the 2 person studio, he was able to produce high quality videos in a space purpose built for this type of activity. He was also able to provide a consistency of experience for the students by using the document camera to complete worked examples, a typical feature of his face-to-face lectures.

I found the eLearning studios enhanced my teaching. The studios enabled me to have higher quality visual and audio features for recorded and live teaching than would have been possible if I recorded teaching sessions at home or in my office.  I also had peace of mind that I would not be interrupted when delivering the teaching sessions. Having a consistent professional environment and acoustic/visual setting also helped to ‘chunk’ or divide two hour recorded lecture videos into smaller pieces to aid student learning. It also allows me to use the shorter video segments in future delivery of the modules.