This is a hand-on workshop to introduce the use of student multimedia content production as part of course work and as an alternative to traditional forms of assessment. It will introduce the necessary collaboration between faculty, IT and librarians and explore the educational technologies that can be used, highlighting benefits and challenges in each case. Different assessment methods for such coursework will be examined and the learning benefits and challenges for students and faculty will be discussed. An overall appraisal of its use in differnt courses will also be presented.

N.B. It will be particularly beneficial if faculty, IT and librarians from the same instution attend the workshop together.

Following the panel presentation by Lippincott and Glavanis, this hands-on workshop will aim to achieve the following objectives:

1. A more detailed and practical introduction to the integration of student multimedia content production as formal coursework assignments and highlight derived learning benefits.
2. Highlight the necessary collaboration between faculty, IT and libarians and identify the role of each in this activity. For example, faculty focus on academic learning outcomes, IT focus on familiarity with the appropriate and relevant learning technologies, and librarians focus on available relevant secondary resources and how to deal with copyright issues.
3. Identify the learning technologies that facilitate such an activity and highlight the benenfits and challenges in each case. It will explore, for exmple, “”lecture capture”” technologies, WIKIs, “”video production and editing”” software among other Web 2.0 technologies.
4. It will suggest ways in which these learning technologies can be used by students to produce multimedia content and highlight user-friendly methodos by which students can acquire the needed skills to use these technologies.
5. It will introduce the different assessment methods that can be used by faculty to evaluate student multimedia content production and introduce rubrics for such use.
6. It will discuss and identify the specific academic learning outcomes to be derived by students as well as relating them to the acquisition of 21st century skills that benefit students in the labour market.
7. It will highlight ways in which students can be introduced to such an academic activity and assist them in moving from being passive learners to becoming active, creative and critical learners who can produce content that acquires academic and socio-historical value.
8. It will demonstrate actual output by students from other courses and highlight course evaluations by students who used such an academic learning methodology.
9. Participants will be encouraged and assisted by the workshop facilitators to consider ways in which their current courses can be adapted to make use of student multimedia content production as an integral part of the course work and assessement.
10. Participants will leave the workshop with a greater familirarity of this innovative learning methodlogy and equiped with a degree of understanding and competence that will enable them to make use of it in their respective home institutions. This is in addition to having a blue print of an adapted course that they can use to start with.