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Our Internal link opens in the same window:Center for Teaching and Learning (ZLL) regularly organises workshops on topics such as time management, learning methods, teaching methods and much more. The ZLL also supports lecturers in the development, implementation and further development of contemporary and innovative teaching models.
An overview of video as a learning medium
During the corona semesters, the learning medium of video was increasingly used − lecture recordings and PowerPoint recordings became video “preserves” thus providing a solution to a common problem of synchronous online teaching − the often unstable internet connection in video conferences.
Some lecturers switched their teaching to a completely asynchronous or blended learning format. This makes use of a major advantage of video as a learning medium − videos can be watched anytime and anywhere at your own pace (Brehmer & Becker, 2017, p. 1).
Topics that are explained in the same way in many semesters can easily be "outsourced" to a video and thus reused sustainably.
In particular, a video can be used to convey facts that are otherwise difficult or impossible to present (Brehmer & Becker, 2017, p.1; Niegemann et al., 2008, p. 266), for example:
- a complex laboratory experiment that cannot be repeated every semester
- sequences of natural events that would normally take much longer
- historical evidence.
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