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Using Streaming Video to Support Learning and Teaching; Case Studies, Reports and Publications

 

 

This section of the Lifesign website is about Lifesign outcomes that can inform and support the wider academic community. The page gives descriptions and links to cases studies that describe how Lifesign videos have been used by tutors in UK Higher Education to support student learning. The cases do not just show the 'bits that worked'. Cases are analytical and evaluative in nature. The Lifesign Project Team express the view that only engagement with real students and real learning situations will allow us to 'develop and evaluate the use of streaming media in learning and teaching'. Publications and conference presentations also express our academic engagement with the issues.

 

 
Case Studies/ Publications and Conference presentations.

Case Study 1 : Learning to Measure Blood Pressure

Pat Larkin lectures in Social Health & Behavioural Studies at the University of Southampton. With the help of the Lifesign team she produced a video stream about how to measure blood pressure and used this, as one of three learning resources, with second year students. The case study includes a summary of feedback data from the students.

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Case Study 2 : Embedded video stream in a VLE for Nursing and Midwifery students

Staff in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Southampton are piloting the use of e-learning resources in their first year programmes. One first year unit on Biosciences, is embedding a wide range of learning resources into a Blackboard VLE. The resources used to support learning in the microbiology section of this unit use a streamed video from LIFESIGN. The video is 'Staying alive; a thoroughly modern microbe' , produced as part of the SHOTLIST project. It looks at microbiology from a public health perspective and focuses on an outbreak of E.coli 0157. Staff in the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Southampton are helping the tutors to evaluate this particular use of this video to support learning and teaching for approximately 800 students.

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Case Study 3: Video stream embedded in lecture presentation for student nurses

A streamed video on Cystic Fibrosis was shown within a lecture for student nurses. The video was used to reinforce the technical content of the lecture by providing a 'real patient' context to the genetic and biochemical theory.

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The ALT-C Conference, Edinburgh, September 2001

Click here for a short description of the Panel Presentation made by members of LIFESIGN and 'ClickandGo Video'.
Reports In preparation
Publications and Conference presentations made by the Lifesign Team

Lifesign Publications

Jeremy Atkinson, 'Digitising moving images: national and local perspectives', JUGL Seminar on Digitisation in Practice, London, January 2001. http://bubl.ac.uk/org/jugl/digitisation2001/present.html

John Mahoney, 'Lifesign delivers moving images for learning in the life sciences', Media Online Focus (5), October 2001.

William Garrison, 'Video streaming into the mainstream', Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 174-178. 2001

John Mahoney, 'Lifesign Project', in BMJ Hermans and JT Goldschmeding (eds.), Streaming Video in Hoger Onderwijs', SURF,, pp40-42. 2001

Andrew Dalgleish, 'The Use of Networked Moving Images for Learning and Teaching: the Lifesign Project', Internet Librarian International: collected presentations, London, UK, 18-20 March 2001, Medford, N.J., Information Today, 2002, p. 30.

John Mahoney and Andrew Dalgleish, Presentation to the Society of Experimental Biologists, 10th April 2002, University of Swansea.

'Pilot web project nets BBC science shows', Times Higher Education Supplement, 21st June 2002

Shephard KL (2002), 'Integrating national initiatives and local developments; Streaming Video to support Nurse Education in the UK' in Winds of change in the sea of learning. Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Australian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education..Unitec, Auckland New Zealand. (In press).)

Shephard KL (2002) Questioning, promoting and evaluating the use of streaming video to support student learning, British Journal of Educational Technology (in press).

Green S, Voegeli D, Harrison M, Phillips J, Knowles J, Weaver M and Shephard K. (2003) Evaluating the use of streaming video to support student learning in a first-year life sciences course for student nurses. Nurse Education Today (In press)

Click here for a short description of the Panel Presentation made by members of LIFESIGN and 'ClickandGo Video' at the ALT-C Conference in Edinburgh, September 2001.