A study from the UW-Madison E-Business Institute (UWEBI) found the majority of undergraduate students strongly prefer online-learning study and courses with lecture captures.
UWEBI, a campus-wide initiative conducting multidisciplinary research on e-business strategies, conducted a survey of 29,078 UW-Madison students to find their perspective on streaming video lectures in April 2008.
Among the survey respondents, 47 percent of undergraduate students had taken at least one online course with lecture captures.
According to Kyle Henderson, marketing and communications manager of UW E-Business Consortium, the survey results showed 82 percent of undergraduate students preferred courses with online-lecture options.
There has been a considerable amount of work done in terms of lecture capture, streaming video lectures,"" Henderson said. ""The great majority of folks we surveyed found that this is going to be an excellent complement to their course work.""
According to the UWEBI study, which was designed by Raj Veeramani, a UW-Madison professor and executive director of UWEBI, 93 percent of students said webcasting lectures is helpful as a way to make up missed classes.
According to the student survey, 60 percent of students are willing to pay for streaming content services. Over 50 percent of undergraduate students said they would use the online materials after the end of a course.
""I would love to have online lectures in addition to normal lectures,"" one of the survey correspondents said. ""Focusing on listening and comprehension during class is very important to me and extremely difficult if I am also simultaneously scribbling notes.""
Henderson said professors can also benefit from online teaching.
""One benefit for the professor is more satisfied students,"" he said. ""Professors are interested in student learning, and some students said they can learn better with online content at their disposal.
