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It seems that the digital world is all around us, wherever we turn to. Although not palpable, this world is
already an important part of our everyday lives. When we talk specifically about the teaching/learning
process we see that, at least in the last decade, the development of alternative and new strategies has
been huge. The way students react to some methods and tactics is changing and engaging then into
their own learning process is becoming a constant “challenge” to teachers, in all different educational
levels. As Math professors in a High Education Institution where Mathematics is a basic and
supporting course to other advanced (but non-Mathematical) ones, this so called “challenge” grows
exponentially.
In this paper we analyse the impact of introducing and supporting some Math contents through video
lectures, in a voice over presentation style, based on animated arrangements, in our own mother
language. These videos were developed for a first-year Math course in several Management degrees
in the Tourism and Hospitality Area. The specific curricular items were chosen with a primary objective
of trying to level up the mathematical competencies that are fundamental to the development of
‘mathematical literacy’ of our students. Our video lectures are available to students in our institutional
Moodle platform, with all its features, along with other resources (as texts and proposed exercises) as
well as in a YouTube channel. We will also describe students’ background areas of study in preuniversity
level and analyse if this has any influence in the way they interact with video-lectures in their
own learning development and knowledge construction and report student’s perception of the eventual
benefits of using this digital resource in engaging and promoting their self-responsibility in the leaning
process. Finally, we will analyse students’ evaluation of the videos recorded by the professors and
uploaded to the Moodle platform and YouTube as a learning tool.
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Video-lectures Open resources Higher education Teaching and learning strategies Online education Technology innovation
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IATED Academy