THE CONTRIBUTION OF LECTURE CAPTURING TO THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE OF ACCOUNTING STUDENTS

Year 2017, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 0 - 0, 01.06.2017

Estie Lubbe

Abstract

Lecture capturing is the term used for the recording of lecture time and making it
available to students in digital format on the learning management system.
Lecture capturing was introduced to enable all students to use the recorded videos
of lectures for revision, or if the class was missed by a full time student and for
part-time students to be able to watch all the full-time classes.The objective of this
paper is to determine whether the lecture capturing videos contribute to the
learning experience of the students in a mixed method teaching environment. A
mixed method study over a period of two years was done between the pass rate of
third year level accounting students per module and their lecture attendance,
before and after (pre-/post-) the introduction of the lecture capturing. A
correlation analysis was also performed to test the relationship between student
performance and lecture attendance, and compared the relationship for any
changes with the introduction of lecture capturing. Other contributing factors
impacting the success of lecture capturing were also considered like the number of
downloads of videos compared to the number of downloads of the flipped
classroom videos. The results from this study indicated that students’ lecture
attendance and the pass rate dropped compared to the previous year, where no
lecturer capturing took place. The correlation relationship strengthened between
student performance and lecture attendance with the introduction of lecture
capturing. Videos were relatively long and students generally struggled to find
additional time in their normal schedule to watch videos of the entire lecture.

Keywords

Accounting, Lecture capturing, Flipped classroom, Undergraduate studies, Class attendance