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Lecture capture guide - English

This document provides a guide for students on how to effectively attend and utilize lecture recordings for better learning outcomes. It emphasizes the importance of attending live lectures, making specific notes, and revisiting recordings for clarification, while also advising against binge-watching and multitasking during lectures. The guide concludes with a citation for further reading on the topic.

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Lecture capture guide - English

This document provides a guide for students on how to effectively attend and utilize lecture recordings for better learning outcomes. It emphasizes the importance of attending live lectures, making specific notes, and revisiting recordings for clarification, while also advising against binge-watching and multitasking during lectures. The guide concludes with a citation for further reading on the topic.

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Using lecture Attend lectures.

recordings: Make notes.


A guide for students
Be specific.

Catch up.

Ask for help.

Don’t cut corners.


Research shows that students who
attend more lectures tend to get

Attend
better grades.

lectures.
Studies show that students find live
performances more engaging than
watching a video.

There are also social benefits to


attending lectures, you become part
of the community.

Supplemental use of lecture


recordings has been shown to be
best.

Use recordings to revisit bits you


don't understand rather than using
them as a substitute.
Making notes helps you learn but it

Make
also gives you material to review at
a later date.

The best way to make notes is to

notes.
summarise or paraphrase what the
lecturer is saying, rather than writing
down word-for-word.

Making good notes can be difficult


but you can use systems like the
Cornell Method to help you
structure your notes.

Focus on understanding the lecture.


If it is too hard to summarise in your
own words, make verbatim notes
first and paraphrase later. Any notes
are better than no notes.

Don't be anxious about writing down


every word, if you miss something
you can revisit the recording.
Before you rewatch the lecture try to

Be
recall as much as you can.

specific.
Check your notes and identify
sections you missed or didn't
understand.

Rewatch specific sections of the


lecture related to these problem
areas, rather than watching the full
recording.

Revisit the recording within 2-3


days, don’t rewatch immediately
after the lecture, or wait too long.

Use the recordings to add detail to


your notes, but don't forget to
summarise and paraphrase in your
own words.
If you can't attend a lecture for valid

Catch
reasons, watch the recording in full
within one week.

You learn more effectively when

up.
your learning sessions are spread
out so it's good to keep up-to-date
with the lecture content each week.

There is evidence you won't learn


as much if you watch the recording
at higher speeds, so watch it at
normal speed once and take notes
as if you were in the live lecture.

Once you've watched the recording


in full, then go back and revisit bits
you don't understand.

This ensures that you will have


spent the same amount of "time-on-
task" as a student who attended the
live lecture.
Just because there's a recording
doesn't mean you can't ask for help

Ask for
if you don't understand bits of the
lecture.

help.
Consider watching the recordings
with your peers as part of a study
group.

Use the recordings as a help


resource to check your knowledge
when testing yourself.

By reviewing specific bits of the


recordings you can identify exactly
which parts of the lecture you are
struggling with.

Pause the recording to look up


additional resources - don't just rely
on the content in the lecture!
Don't binge-watch lectures during
revision week, there is a lot of

Do not:
strong evidence that in order to
learn effectively you need to space
out your learning: you will learn
more, in less time, if you do it week-
by-week.

Do not rewatch lectures in full


(unless you missed the lecture):
the act of thinking about which bits
you need to revisit will actually help
you learn more

Do not engage in multitasking such


as household chores or driving
whilst listening to recorded lectures,
you need to give them your full
attention in order to learn.
Please cite these guides as Nordmann et al. (2018).

Lecture capture: Practical recommendations for students


and lecturers
Preprint: https://osf.io/esd2q/

Emily Nordmann1, Carolina E. Kuepper-Tetzel2, Louise Robson3, Stuart Phillipson4,


Gabi Lipan5 and Peter McGeorge5
1 School of Psychology, University of Glasgow, 62 Hillhead Street, Glasgow, G12 8QB
2 Department of Psychology, Scrymgeour Building, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN
3 Department of Biomedical Science, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN
4 IT Services, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL
5 School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX

Corresponding author:
Emily Nordmann
[email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0


International License.

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