{"id":881,"date":"2006-10-27T09:33:23","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T14:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/studytools.psych.und.nodak.edu\/wordpress\/?p=881"},"modified":"2008-03-08T03:19:45","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T03:19:45","slug":"a-picture-about-several-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/27\/a-picture-about-several-thousand-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picture About Several Thousand Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my general frustrations with the individuals I consider the movers and shakers in the educ blog community is that they seldom collect or rely on research and data. Innovators trained in the tradition I come from have vision and beliefs just like anyone else, but we start to feel guilty when we promote practices without the benefit of some form of evidence. I hope this &#8220;built-in&#8221; guilt mechanism is a hedge against becoming too caught up in the thrill of being a promoter.<\/p>\n<p>I decided when there was a connection to the general themes of this blog I would make an effort to share data I collect. Here is a simple finding that may be relevent to those interested in podcasting educational content.<\/p>\n<p>A topic I study as a researcher is the impact of providing beginning college students &#8220;lecture supplements.&#8221; I consider such questions as  &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Will students make voluntary use of lecture supplements?<\/li>\n<li>What are the characteristics of students who use lecture supplements?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a connection between the use of lecture supplements and attendance?<\/li>\n<li>Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have been evaluating student use of lecture outlines (available before lectures) and lecture summaries for some time. For the past couple of years, I have added audio.<\/p>\n<p>The following chart (a picture about student use of lecture resources &#8211; several thousand words) indicates the % of outlines, summaries, and audio  files (from left to right) &#8220;downloaded&#8221; by students.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/studytools.psych.und.nodak.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/noteuse2005.jpg\" alt=\"Yahoo Time Capsule\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An impression &#8211; within the context of text-based resources, students are not that interested in audio content. Why &#8211; I am guessing the efficiency of lecture summaries is much greater and lecture summaries prepared by a qualified individual have been &#8220;preprocessed&#8221; and are more helpful as a supplement.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; I still think there may be some specific opportunities for &#8220;podcast&#8221; content, but the DATA I have regarding represenations of entire lectures suggest that college students would prefer a quality text summary. When students are investing their time, students appear to prefer well written and complete information summaries. I am assuming there would be specific exceptions that would involve the unique capabilities of audio &#8211; language development, music, bird calls, etc. Perhaps a collaborative set of master notes generates by students via a wiki should be the focus of our attention.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_881\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"881\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/learningaloud.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my general frustrations with the individuals I consider the movers and shakers in the educ blog community is that they seldom collect or rely on research and data. 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