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Blended Learning – Delivered Naturally

UNIVERSITIES

Universities across Australia and worldwide are accelerating their move to a blended learning experience for their students. Subsequently, lecturers seek a richer, more engaging experience for the students and themselves.

Writing on a whiteboard or chalkboard comes naturally to most professional educators. Using a lightboard for teaching gives you a similar experience, except that you always face your audience rather than turn your back on them. This enhances the educational experience as eye content is maintained, and students can see visual cues and body language.

Using a Lightboard offers a more natural learning experience for distance education, flipped classrooms and supplemental lessons on complex topics.

You’ll get interactive engagement from students when live streaming in real-time, while recording the lectures for your library.

Lightboards in Australian Universities:  Research

Since the introduction of Lightboards in 2014, universities worldwide have adopted their use to facilitate speciality STEM subjects such as Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Electronics, Chemistry, Medicine & Robotics. Here are some examples:

Illuminating Team Culture: How Lightboards Have Revolutionised Tutor Training

“We aimed to address two concerns with these Lightboard videos; students needing more time to understand concepts, especially calculations, and students not feeling prepared for practical classes, even after reading through the notes.”

The University of Sydney made an unexpected discovery after implementing Lightboard Videos into their curriculum. Intel shows that the Lightboard not only provides a new medium for teachers to shine and to support students in their learning, it serves as a powerful tool in preparing tutors and demonstrators for their roles.

You can also read about it here.

The University of New England are embracing their Lightboard studio.

In this video Greg Dorian, Manager of the Learning Media Team introduces the Lightboard to the University Team.

“The dedicated studio space allows ease of use. Feedback monitors, presentation monitors, in-built microphones and lights make the space easy to come in and present.

 

The upgraded studio also makes overlaid graphics incredibly easy to implement. Whilst before you needed specific software, and a technician to assist, the new setup can be graphics in a PowerPoint file. Any image with a black background will be stripped out leaving space to write around the graphic. You can also use grey images to blend half visibility.”

Here are some examples of Lightboard videos and research papers from universities around the world.

• The Lightboard: Is it the Next Generation of Content Delivery? See this presentation from Dr Richard Charlesworth, UNE Lecturer in Biomedical Science – School of Science and Technology at the 2021 Learning and Technology Symposium.

• Learn about the results Latrobe University is getting with their Lightboard Studio.

• Whiteboard? No; Lightboard!   See how The University of Sydney have embraced their Lightboard.

• Empirical research that Lightboards improve learning.

• An Exploration of Online Students’ Impressions of
  Contextualization, Segmentation, and Incorporation of Lightboard : Lectures in Multimedia Instructional Content a Research Paper from Clayton State University, Georgia, USA

• Is the Future Bright? The Potential of Lightboard Videos for Student Achievement and Engagement in Learning. EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2019

This video from Danilla Grando, Associate Professor and coordinator of Medical Microbiology teaching at RMIT University in the School of Science, was included in her research article, What chunking of microbiology learning materials looks like today using technology and learning objects, published in July 2023 by CSIRO Publishing.

With a Lightboard, the future is brighter.