Movie Time in the Classroom: Discussing and Improving Recorded Video Lectures in Online Courses

This presentation will discuss the use of recorded video lectures in asynchronous online courses. There are two goals. First, I will discuss how “homemade” lectures can be (should be?) better than lectures found on YouTube. This is becoming problematic given the excellent lectures widely available on YouTube and other sites. Second, I will demonstrate how the use of voice actors (with various English dialects) reading personalized lectures can engage students, particularly in my linguistics course. And I will show how the use of graded embedded quizzes (with feedback in video format) adds accountability to each lecture.