Online Support for Video-analytical Seminars: How Working with Student-made Video Corpora can be Effectively Managed with the Aid of Digital Platforms

Those who taught seminars on video analysis that included video corpora collected by students often faced the problem of not being able to provide course participants with access to the material. In other words, too often the collected video corpora could not be used for common discussion and analysis in the seminar. Data gathered during courses offered by the VideoLab showed that the learning platform OLAT was only useful to a limited extent. Due to size restrictions within OLAT, a chaotic maze of links to external storage providers was created, obstructing the overview of developing discussions on the data. Additionally, there was a lack of competence in “online communication,” which hindered the presentation of analytical observation in such a way that the connection to concrete video clips became incomprehensible. This was where the collaboration between the VideoLab and the Team for Digital Teaching and Research began. In the courses offered by the VideoLab, several platforms and tools designed for the use of video teaching were put to the test.

Cooperation: This was a collaborative project between the VideoLab (Wolfgang Kesselheim) and the Team for Digital Teaching and Research (Team für Digitale Lehre und Forschung, DLF) of the University of Zurich Arts Faculty (Christian Schorno, Anita Holdener).

Funding source: URPP Language and Space and the UZH DLF.