Teaching and Learning grant for AV case studies project
Senior lecturer Dr Jocelyn Cranefield has received a Learning and Teaching grant for "Students as Producers: Video cases for sustainable learning in Information Systems".
Senior lecturer Dr Jocelyn Cranefield has received a Learning and Teaching grant for her project Students as Producers: Video cases for sustainable learning in Information Systems.
Dr Jocelyn Cranefield will be co-researching the project with fellow School of Information lecturer Dr Jean-Gregoire Bernard and Warren Butcher (Multimedia Producer, IT services).
The project will develop and trial a framework and methodology for the sustainable supply of locally relevant audio-visual (AV) case studies as group learning materials, recorded and produced on an annual basis by level 400 students as group projects, then re-used as group learning materials at 300 level, and potentially later by students at 200 and/or 100 level.
Dr Cranefield says the "suppliers" in this value chain will be students in the course INFO 409: IT Innovation, Value and Productivity, who will create the video material as part of a major case project. This course is being taught in 2013 as a special topic, but the school plans to offer it as a regular Honours paper thereafter.
Project benefits include:
- bringing students close to New Zealand organisations and challenging them to apply analytical skills in 'real' situations
- increased ownership of content, learning engagement and retention
- development communication skills in visual and oral media
For those from orally-oriented cultures (including Māori and Pasifika), it has potential to act an equaliser, balancing the dominance of the written word with cases based on spoken communication. Longer term, the project has potential to position Victoria as a leader in the design/use of video-based teaching cases.