Experience trialling innovative teaching practices

Business and Economics

Trialling

innovative

teaching

practices

Ellinor Allen

Lecturer,

Department of Accounting

Caulfield campus

Deputy Course Director,

Bachelor of Business,

Peninsula campus

Background

ACF1000

Sem 1: 1,000 students, four lecture

streams

Sem 2: 400 students, two lecture streams

Diverse cohort

‘Average’ lecture attendance

Lack of engagement in lectures

What I tried

Weekly resources

Lecture notes

Mini lecture recordings

Lecture summaries

Lecture exercises

Moodle quizzes

Weekly practice quizzes

Four assessment quizzes

Lecture notes

Full set prepared using powerpoint as usual.

Split into three main sections.

Three mini lectures recorded to narrate the

lecture notes.

Average length 10-15 mins.

Created using CamStudio.

Converted to MP4 using Format Factory.

Lecture notes


Recorded using CamStudio

Region: window

Options: microphone

Up to around 15 mins


Files converted to MP4 format before

uploading into Moodle.

Format Factory (no longer required).


File size became more manageable.

Format more user-friendly for students to

download or watch.

Lecture summaries

Summarised version of the slides containing

main learning areas.

Lecture illustrations/exercises throughout.

Why did I try it?

MULO recordings are barely utilised.

Students are time poor.

Lecture attendance is moderate.

Need to recognise different learning

approaches.

MULO Sem 1, 2014

45 38 38 64 85 96 73 50 52 49 36

MULO Sem 2, 2014

37 39 33 27 35 30 20 9

Mini lecture statistics

Sem 1 Sem 2

Folder name No. of

views

No. of

views

Topic 1 mini lecture recordings 1199 449







Number of students enrolled 974 399

Weekly quizzes

10 MCQs each week

Multiple attempts allowed

Intention to monitor accuracy and

adapt lecture to suit.

Weekly attemptsSem 1 Sem 2

Quiz No. of

attempts

No. of

attempts

Topic 1 practice quiz 1,067 304

Topic 2 practice quiz 812 233








Topic 10 practice quiz 283 -




Assessment quizzes

To replace a mid-semester test

Four quizzes, in weeks 3, 6, 9, 12

10 questions

One hour

One attempt allowed

A bank of 40 questions was

developed

Assessment quiz

Sem 1 Sem 2

Quiz No. of

attempts

No. of

attempts

Assessment quiz 1 (week 3) 949 375

Assessment quiz 2 (week 6) 922 362

Assessment quiz 3 (week 9) 893 5*

Assessment quiz 4 (week 12) 816 -


What did students see?

What did students see?

What did they say?

To the qualitative question

“what are the best aspects of this unit”

responses included:


“The 3 mini lectures”

“The mini lecture recordings before lectures are great,

they help reinforce the concepts before the lecture”

“I absolutely loved Ellinor’s mini lecture recordings

that I could listen to over and over again during my

self study periods.”

“The mini recordings are helpful and I found that I

was always able to teach myself something even if I

didn’t properly understand it at first”

“The online resources for this unit are great and very

helpful”

“The mini lectures are a very good way to give

students a basic understanding of what will be

covered further in the week’s lecture.”

What did they say?

What did they say?

Lecture format

“The practical examples that you are taken through in

lectures”

“Lecture exercises to help further understand concepts”

“Doing exercises in the lectures helped my understanding”

“The lectures in which we went over how to do the practical

side of accounting was immensely helpful”

“The lecture is very extensive in its learning approach, and

engages in different materials to support and expand our

knowledge”

What did they say?

Online quizzes

“The online quizzes are also helpful but its also good

that there aren't too many quizzes”

“The pre-lesson quizzes were very helpful”

“The quizzes have been very helpful with my study. I

really like how they cover a few topics at the one

time, rather than having a quiz every week.”

“The four assessment quizzes have been extremely

helpful providing great feedback to ensure I am on

the right track with the content.”

Was it worth it?

“The three part videos posted every week would allow for

a detailed explanation of everything that had been gone

through in the lectures…much more helpful than

tutorials…definitely the best aspect of this unit and

Ellinor should be greatly encouraged to keep on doing

these videos…”

“The mini lecture videos couldn’t have been more

helpful…I am very appreciative of your approach and I

have somehow enjoyed a subject I’d failed miserably

and hated in the past…”

Was it worth it?

“As ACF1000 is a core subject for my business degree, I

had no choice in completing this subject and was very

nervous to complete a subject I had no interest in and

had no background information about. But I have

completely changed my perspective of the subject and I

may even consider majoring in Accounting.”

Business and Economics

Thank you

Questions?

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