capturing learners' experiences of a video tutorial website

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Capturing Learners’ Experiences of a Video Tutorial Website

Julian PriorLearning TechnologistSouthampton Solent University

Your experience of how lynda.com has benefited your learning is really

important to us.

• Software, Creative and Business Skills

• 2500+ courses 100,000+ video tutorials

• Develops digital skills, promotes self-directed learning, personal development, student engagement

• 18 month pilot: 3500 student licenses, 1500 staff licenses.

What is lynda.com?

Activated UsersActivated users are staff and students who have activated their account after receiving the welcome email and who have logged in at least once.

45%

Solent lynda.com User Data to October 2014

Dreamweaver CS6 Essential Training01

Popular Courses

Photoshop CS6 Fundamentals02Up and running with HTML03AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training04SolidWorks 2015 Essential Training05

Top 20 student coursesRank Course Unique users Total views # users completed 1 Dreamweaver CS6 Essential Training 38 2145 13 2 AutoCAD 2015 Essential Training 28 472 0 3 Discovering Your Strengths 22 145 5 4 WordPress Essential Training 20 124 0 5 Up and Running with HTML 19 607 10 6 Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals 15 1031 8 7 CSS Fundamentals 14 355 7 8 Managing Your Time 14 66 9 9 Rhino 5 Essential Training 13 217 0 10 Designing a Resume 13 62 1 11 Dreamweaver CC Essential Training 13 41 0 12 Developing a Mood Board 10 49 3 13 Up and Running with DSLR Filmmaking 9 323 7 14 Creating a First Web Site with Dreamweaver CS6 9 112 2 15 SolidWorks 2014 Essential Training 8 315 0 16 Management Fundamentals 8 128 3 17 Project Management Fundamentals 8 116 1 18 Creative DSLR Video Techniques 7 173 7 19 Overcoming Procrastination 7 57 4 20 Managing a Hosted Web Site 7 24 0

Student Survey

Focus Group Outputs• opportunity to develop

subject skills• watched videos at home

(laptops and PCs)• preferred lynda.com to

YouTube• “definitely improved my

learning: I feel more knowledgeable in class and more confident answering questions”

• “The subjects it teaches would be really boring in a textbook but on Lynda they’re not”

Using video to capture learner feedback

http://vimeo.com/95382227

lynda.com

• Sarah Knight (JISC) - We shouldn’t consider students as data to be ‘mined’/objects of research - students are “surveyed-out”

• How do we treat students as subjects of learner experience data collection?

• How do we capture diverse learner experiences in new, innovative and creative ways? (moving beyond surveys and focus groups)

Issues to Consider