ONLINE LEARNING THROUGH MICRO LECTURES

Online Learning

Topics such as what is online learning are far too old. In this article I am not trying repeat those musings over traditional and online way of learning. If I were to put it otherwise, gone are the days when online education in itself was seen as a new educational design and students were taught on how to cope up with the growing educational pattern. Friends! It is time to move on and explore the nuances in the field of online learning. While online learning as a technological offspring offered a new dimension to educational system, newer concepts are here to change the very nature of learning.

Online Learning Through Micro Lectures

Micro lectures or one minute lecturing is a concept of offering lectures at the shortest time span, introducing the concepts, touring across the essence of the subject and also helping students take their own time in understanding the subject at their own pace given a set of assignments to complete. Different though, considering the fact that hour long lectures are ok with traditional classrooms it might be not be the same with online learning. Distractions are an integral part of online learning and making students cope up with it becomes extremely important. Shorter the lectures the more interesting and effective it becomes, enabling students concentrate best.

Steps In Developing Micro Lectures

Have you ever heard of the concept of “Active Learning”? Then here it is. Again, it is important to understand and remember the fact that though a very interesting concept, it cannot be used in all subjects.

List down the points you intend to cover in a 60 minute lecture in the form of phrases. These phrases become the core of your lecture.

You need a context for introducing all concepts, so it becomes important for you to prepare an introduction and a conclusion for about 30 seconds.

Prepare a video of the lecture with the help of a micro phone and web cam and where you wish that it should be in audio format record them only using a microphone. The college authorities will provide you the equipments required to prepare these lectures.

Include reading and written assignments while designing an assignment for students, enabling them to understand the concept more clearly.

The final leg is to upload the video onto the net and make it available for students with the help of course management software.

I am sure you are ready with a micro lecture, post it soon and let us have your link.