Teaching and Learning Development Unit

University of Sussex Teaching Fellowship 2011

Paul Newbury (Informatics) has been awarded a Teaching Fellowship for 2011-12 and will receive £5000 to fund his project looking at the ways in which students engage with 'captured' lectures. He will compare engagement levels on two courses across a range of different types of recorded lecture: audio with slides (often referred to as enhanced podcasting);  Echo360; using portable HD cameras, as in the professorial lectures, and recording in a television studio.

Paul is delighted to win the fellowship, which has come at a good time for his project. The systems that he and his colleague Phil Watten set up to record lectures in the Informatics television studio are working in a reliable way and Echo360 has matured as a mainstream lecture capture system. Paul and Phil are already starting to establish a research base in this area and hopefully this project will lead to another journal publication. Above all, the project will provide valuable information that will help Sussex to make the best use of lecture capture to enhance students’ learning.

The award will be formally made at graduation this summer and there will be an interview with Paul in the Autumn 2011 issue of RUSTLE.