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

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