Video enhanced observation in academic presentation skills

2017-11-19
There has been increasing interest in incorporating Web 2.0 tools into giving feedback in language classes. Several online feedback tools have emerged recently to facilitate giving feedback and to evaluate students’ performances. One of these tools is ‘VEO’ (Video Enhanced Observation) a web 2 tool for continuous professional development which makes it possible for teachers and students to give feedback on their performance, tagging their videos by custom-made items. The present study reports reflections of the students on receiving feedback via the VEO program, compared to regular, standard feedback in an Academic Oral Skills course. The specific focus of the feedback aimed at enhancing the development, in especially preparing audiovisual aids, and improving language skills; hence mediating and assisting learning at large. The dataset consists of 3 hours of presentations recorded using VEO. 20 students were given feedback using the app, that is their presentations were videotaped and later tagged. The control group (also 20 students) received feedback in traditional methods; referring to a rubric and via conferencing. Later all participants from each group (chosen according to convenience sampling method) were asked to fill out an online survey on how effective they found the use of the feedback practices, whether it be the VEO app or the conventional notes on the rubric and conferencing methods. The results of the study indicate that although, the video enhanced observation technology seems to lend itself to pinpointing the exact seconds the feedback refers to, and presents evidence to oral performance, traditional feedback, too, seems to provide the students numerous benefits
3rd International Congress On Education Sciences And Learning Technology 15 - 19 November, 2017

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Citation Formats
S. Balbay, “Video enhanced observation in academic presentation skills,” Athens, Greece, 2017, p. 15, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.education.gen.tr/sites/default/files/education_congress_book_of_abstract_v2.pdf.