Los Angeles, CA (March 16, 2015) A new SAGE white paper out today reveals the types of educational videos that appeal to students and where they go to find them. Titled "Great Expectations: Students and Video in Higher Education," the paper includes suggestions for librarians as they connect the video resources found in their libraries with researchers, instructors, and students.
Combining previous research with surveys of 1,673 students and a collection of in-depth interviews, study author Elisabeth Leonard, MSLS, MBA, examines how and why students use educational video inside and outside of the classroom, how likely students are to watch videos found in libraries, and presents recommendations for librarians attempting to communicate the video resources they have.
Among her findings, Leonard found the following:
Students recommended that the library market video resources using the library website, the learning management system, social media (including Facebook), e-mail, touch screens inside the library, and posters on bulletin boards near the entrance to the library. They also recommended that the message be clear and target specific services rather than a general message about the library.
"All of these findings help to describe the changing higher education environment," Leonard wrote. "With a diversity of age ranges and life experiences and with a similar diversity of classrooms types (synchronous and asynchronous, in person and virtual), student expectations for videos--including how their faculty will employ videos--are just as diverse as the campus communities to which they belong."
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Find out more by reading the full white paper, titled "Great Expectations: Students and Video in Higher Education" found here: http://www.sagepub.com/repository/binaries/pdfs/StudentsandVideo.pdf .
If you are attending the ACRL Conference and would like to join a discussion on the white paper (with free brunch included), please email camille.gamboa@sagepub.com .
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