Exploring ICT practices through Echo 360

Kwong Nui Sim

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This paper reports the findings from a pilot study that investigated the use, by two learning and teaching technologists, of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), an automated lecture-capture system (Echo 360), to support their daily practices. Data sources included computer activity records extracted from the participants’ computers at their work areas via the use of Echo 360. Data were analysed using an interpretive approach resulting in three themes: (a) the advantages and the strengths of using screen capture (or ‘screencasting’) as a method in research; (b) the notion of ‘multitasking’ in the process of ICT use; (c) the understanding of ‘human-computer’ interaction in today’s higher education. Through monitoring the navigation of the users’ actions within the computers’ interfaces in real time, the screen capture provided an accurate account of how participants used their computer technologies and what they were doing with them. The screen capture data revealed the sense of ‘digital literacy’ among the participants and the findings therefore provided insights into ideas about how to develop a more structural ICT support system for academic teaching staff. Such support would be beneficial to promote the use of ICT among academic teaching staff in the processes of teaching, learning and researching. The findings of this study, however, raised questions about the role played by technologies in advancing the research in higher education, and they highlighted a possible limitation in academic-orientated use of computer technologies by academic teaching staff. In short, this pilot study is framed by the question “How do the assumptions and expectations of technologies’ use held by academic teaching staff influence their daily practice, and vice versa?â€

https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.17.1.2


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academic practices, actual practice data, higher education, perception data, ICT, screen capture, teaching, learning and researching, university

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