Re: DVD Based Home Learning

Video and print materials have worked as part of the mix for the OU
for years. If learning is to be based at home, short of bringing in a
personal tutor, some other means (preferabley a mix) of delivery is
required. You need to look at the course as a whole rather than any
individual piece of technology.

HTH
Marshal


On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:32:52 +0100, Dave <not@here> wrote:

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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