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Why multimedia matters: promoting the use of video in assessment and feedback

Teaching Matters Academic Support

iStock [erhui1979] While the use of multimedia has become a common practice in the development of learning materials, using audio or video in the way that we assess and provide feedback to our students is a practice which is only followed by a minority of lecturers. What are the challenges of this in comparison to written-based approaches?

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Mini-series: Why Edinburgh is offering lecture recording at scale

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The large scale rollout of the technology to our centrally managed teaching rooms has been designed to provide support to as many courses as possible. The microphone in the room is linked to the induction loop which is essential for students with hearing loss and is the best way to capture high quality audio as you talk.