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Creation of videos by students as a way to promote learning in the area of mechanics: an experience in higher education
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The degree courses in Mechanical Engineering and Technology and Industrial Management of
Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (Portugal) include in the 2nd semester of the 2nd year of their study
plan, the course units of Mechanical Technology I and Manufacturing Processes I, respectively. The
contents of these course units are mostly theoretical, so it is important to find approaches that motivate
the students and involve them directly in their learning. The creation of videos for later presentation to
colleagues can fulfil this role, as it requires students to search, interpret, select and organize information
about the contents and reflect on the best way to transmit it to their peers. Within the mentioned course
units, in one of the academic years in which classes were essentially online due to the pandemic, it was
proposed to the students the creation, in group, two videos (each one at a different stage of the
semester), with the themes assigned by the teacher so that, as a whole, they would cover all the contents
that it was essential to explore. The following steps were followed: (i) research on the theme and
production of the video by each group; (ii) sharing the videos with classmates; (iii) extra-class viewing
of the videos produced by classmates; (iv) students answering general questions about the videos they
watched; (v) brief oral presentation in a class by each group about the video produced; (vi) class
discussion on the themes of the videos, based on questions posed by the students, and (vii) an
evaluation test on the themes covered. Only when all the steps concerning the videos produced in the
first phase were fulfilled did we proceed to the preparation of the videos for the second phase, following
again the whole process described above. We consider that, with this methodology, the students were
more motivated and started to have a more active role in the classes, becoming also (together with the
teacher who had the role of an advisor) responsible for the learning of the class, as they contributed
with their work and questions to the exploration of the contents. We underline that the described
approach, besides promoting the acquisition and deepening of knowledge about the course unit
contents, contributed to the development, by the students, of several transversal skills, which can be
useful in their daily life or in their professional future.
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Higher education Videos creation Learning Mechanics
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Ribeiro, J.E.; Silva, Flora; Barros, Paula Maria (2022). Creation of videos by students as a way to promote learning in the area of mechanics: an experience in higher education. In ICERI2022 Proceedings: 15th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation. Sevilha, Espanha
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