TITLE:
Procedural Skills, SketchUp and Vodcasting: Distance Teaching of Design Drawing Skills and Student Learning Autonomy
AUTHORS:
David Ellis, William E. Boyd
KEYWORDS:
Vodcasts, Procedural Knowledge, Web 2.0, Distance Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.12,
June
27,
2014
ABSTRACT: The popularity of sites like YouTube demonstrates the potential
preference for users to use video podcasts (vodcasts) as an instructional tool.
As educators have been encouraged to become more literate in authoring Web 2.0
technologies, the implementation of vodcasts as an effective pedagogy has been
increasingly used in educational settings. The recent proliferation of distance
education courses caused educators in higher education settings to consider why
some programs are more suitable for distance education than others, and whether
procedural knowledge and skills that are required in various industries may be
able to be delivered using contemporary technologies. This article discusses
the efficacy of using vodcasting as a pedagogical tool, in developing procedural
knowledge and skills in computer aided design and drawing, to pre-service
teachers studying via distance education, and demonstrates the capacity for
vodcasts to foster autonomous student learning.