DVD Based Home Learning

Hi All

Hope this is the right forum for this sort of question - apologies if it isn't.

My query is about home based learning packages and I have had one demonstrated to me based around a number of 'lessons' on DVD and associated book-based exercise work.

The question essentially is 'is this approach of any value?'.

My view is that the DVD is extremely inflexible as a tuition medium and although it allows you to replay the so-called lesson, there is no interaction and explanations are inevitably given in the same format time after time. Furthermore, the examples you see are always the same (whereas educational software may offer more potential variety).

Also, the associated telephone support doesn't seem an appropriate way to help a child - how do you explain mathematics problems over the phone for example.

It seems to me that the short lessons are actually of little value and that they expect the student to put in a lot of work (far more than the salesman wanted to admit to) completing book based exercises. If that is the case, then we may as well skip the DVD (or somebody can stand at the front of the living room and read from a script - which insofar as I can tell would amount to the same thing) and simply concentrate on book based exercises.

Any comments on the efficacy of this approach as opposed to other forms of home study, home tutors, computer based learning etc would be most welcome.

Thanks in advance for any responses.

Dave
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