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MediaVision Courseware is an advanced research project produced by Instructional Technology and Academic Computing (ITAC) a division of Information Technology Services at Case Western Reserve University . In coordination with faculty, students, and administration, ITAC assists the development of emerging technologies and supports current technologies that enhance |
teaching and learning at Case. Through technology support and professional development, ITAC supports the University community in its endeavor to experience, explore, collaborate, and extend learning beyond its traditional bounds.
Working with Chemistry 105, a large, lecture-style undergrad chemistry course,
MediaVision is enhancing existing teaching methods with new multimedia learning content. Elements of the course include video recordings of lectures, review sessions, and homework assistance; MP3 audio recordings; and an on-line textbook. Lectures and review sessions of Dr. Ocasio's Chemistry 105 course have been recorded; encoded for network distribution; classified, indexed and "published" to the web where they are accessed by students. |
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Students can, for example, choose to replay an entire lecture or view only the portions of the lecture they would like to see based on the results of a key word search.
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Network-based delivery extends access to the multimedia materials both on and off campus, allowing all students to be “technological equals” and have the same experience, which is especially critical to CWRU commuting students. Plans are currently in the works to extend network-based delivery of MediaVision Courseware to AP chemistry students in high schools. |
Evaluating student performance is an important goal of this project also, and the results have been impressive.After 20 years of tracking student performance using traditional teaching methods, the averages on the first two tests have historically been 72/73. During the first semester of Chemistry 105 using the MediaVision Courseware, scores for those two tests rose to an 81 average. When asked if the success of these multimedia materials will deter students from attending class in-person, Dr. Ocasio replied, “Its just another way to keepmy door open to my students.” To learn more about MediaVision, please visit its web site at http://www.case.edu/its/itac/mediavision/index.html |
