2018 ASHS Annual Conference

Use of lecture capture technology has increased in the last decade to enhance the student learning environment, yet is still not used in the majority of courses at most institutions. Lecture capture is used to describe any type of system, where the content of a lecture is recorded for dissemination to students at a later date. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceived benefit of have recorded lectures and labs by surveying students in a 1000 level Principles of Horticulture class over two semesters. Student were given access to previously recorded lectures and lab along with lecture slides through the course Desire to Learn platform. At the end of the semester, students were given a paper survey with 10 likert type questions related to use along with student demographics. Of the 92 students who responded to the survey, all student classifications were represented almost equally and ranged from 20% freshman to 30% juniors and 18% considered themselves commuters. Results of the survey showed that the majority (55%) viewed some of the recorded lectures or labs and only 31% viewed both lecture and lab videos. Eleven students did not indicate that having access to recorded videos was useful and may have instead preferred the presentation slides. Only a small percentage (5%) of the students indicated that they preferred to view recorded lectures instead of attending class.