at home, alone, together - university of melbourne
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Dr Joshua Pocius Lecturer in Gender Studies
School of Social and Political Sciences The University of Melbourne
At home, alone, together:Lecture live-streaming to enhance first-year student engagement
Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education Teaching and Learning Summit 2020 ‘A new blended approach? Optimising the best of online and face-to-face learning’ 24-25 November 2020
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Biography• BA (Sociology, Film Studies) Monash
University 2012
• BA (Hons.) (Screen & Cultural Studies) University of Melbourne 2013
• PhD (Screen & Cultural Studies) University of Melbourne 2017
• Teaching (UniMelb) 2014-2020 GEND10001, GEND20008, GEND30003, GEND40002, GEND40005, ASIA20003, CULS10001, CULS30002, CULS30004, CULS30005, CULS40001, CULS40011
• Awarded the School of Culture and Communication Excellence in Teaching (Undergraduate) Award in 2018
@JoshuaPocius [email protected]
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The Context🎓GEND10001 Sex, Gender & Culture: An Introduction is the
first-year, introductory, compulsory subject for the Gender Studies major 🎓The Gender Studies programme is interdisciplinary
and sits across each of the constituent Schools of the Faculty of Arts 🎓GEND10001 typically enjoys high enrolments (350+
students) with well-attended lectures, including many guest lectures, and facilitates cohort collegiality 🎓Under lockdown, all 12 lectures to be given by the
primary lecturer, and all to be delivered remotely and available to watch online across various timezones
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The ConundrumThere are benefits and drawbacks to both live, in-person lecture delivery and remote/online lecture delivery:
Benefits:
Drawbacks:
Live, in-person lectures
Remote/online recorded lectures
Student interactionSense of “being in place and time”
Lecture-as-event
Convenience of accessAbility to pre-recordAbility to edit and finesse contentSeamless inclusion of additional AV content/material
Hard to develop cohort collegialityExacerbates underlying perceptions of teaching staff as distant and disinterestedInsufficiencies in tools and technologies
Lecture recordings often a poor substituteRestricted to the social
organisation of the physical space
Q: How to optimise the experience in a blended learning approach to draw on the benefits of both forms of lecture delivery?
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The Experiment👨🏫 Lectures for GEND10001 were largely pre-recorded and
edited with the lecturer digitally superimposed into the lecture slides
👨🏫 At the regular weekly lecture time, the lecture recording was broadcast live via Zoom
👨🏫 At various intervals during the lecture, the lecture recording is paused, and students are broken into break-out rooms to discuss a question or prompt, with open discussion to follow
👨🏫 These interactive moments are recorded and then included in the final lecture recording which is uploaded for those students unable to attend the live broadcast
👨🏫 During the lecture live-stream, the Zoom chat function is used for additional teacher-student interaction
Student interaction
Sense of “being in place and time”Lecture-as-event
Convenience of accessAbility to pre-record
Ability to edit and finesse contentSeamless inclusion of additional AV content/material
Immediacy
Immersion
Imitation
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Immediacy
Immersion
Imitation
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Immediacy
Immersion
Imitation
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Immediacy
Immersion
Imitation
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Immediacy
Immersion
Imitation
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Immediacy
Immersion
Imitation
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Immediacy
Immersion
Imitation
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Immediacy Immersion ImitationAnatomy of a Lecture:
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Final thoughts and considerations:👨🏫 Tools and technologies to enhance immediacy
have improved throughout 2020, but are still not ideal (yet)
👨🏫 It is possible to produce weekly, engaging, high-quality, professionally edited and produced teaching and learning content - but this takes time and specialist skill (lecturer must be producer, editor, director, film crew, etc)
👨🏫 Insecure academic work and casualisation remain a major barrier to effective, efficient teaching practices
Student interaction
Sense of “being in place and time”Lecture-as-event
Convenience of accessAbility to pre-record
Ability to edit and finesse contentSeamless inclusion of additional AV content/material
Immediacy
Immersion
Imitation