Lecture podcasts are considered an efficient means for passing on learning contents to students, most notably in lectures with large numbers of students. Here, the lecturer's presentation, combined with lecture slides, is recorded and broadcasted in video form. The present study investigates how students organize learning when they have the choice…

The current study sought to determine the effectiveness of video-on-demand podcasts (vodcasts) as a tool for facilitating the understanding of Physiology by first year undergraduate Graduate Entry to Medicine (GEM 1) students. Seventy-three GEM 1 students were provided with full length vodcasts of lecture material in advance of each of nine…

The 10th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2017) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Optics Velley Kingdom Plaza Hotel, Wuhan, Hubei Province, in China. This years conference features two invited talks by: Dr. Jie Tang, Associate Professor with the Department of Computer…

This study examined the changes in undergraduate students' attitudes and performance associated with the introduction of activities characterized by data exchange between the lecturer and students in large (up to 100 students) classes of introductory statistics for psychology majors. Participants were 195 undergraduates enrolled in the class…

Opinions differ regarding how much of the available information on a particular topic should be presented in a medical school lecture. Data suggest that lectures to medical students are more effective aids to learning when the information density is limited to a few main points that are essential. Author/MLW)