An End-user Evaluation of a Lecture Archiving System.

Abstract

Lecture archiving and the provision of online access to it are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in tertiary education and there is a growing body of associated literature. However there is limited attention given to the implied interaction between students, staff and the computing complex required to create and serve recorded lectures online, or the different interests of the human parties involved. This paper reviews HCI principles in the context of current research on lecture archiving from the academic's, and student's perspective. It then addresses findings from qualitative and quantitative surveys of students' use of lecture archiving across six University of Auckland Business School courses in Summer school 2009. Our experiences of a subsequent deployment in Semester One of 2009 are also considered in conjunction with relevant server log data. Interface, storage, retrieval and delivery issues are addressed, along with their observed impact on student and staff uses of archiving technology.