University Learning and Teaching Committee
Teaching Development Grants
Final Report
Grant Holder Details
Name
Dr Jenny Clarke
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
School of Sport and Physical Education
Name of other participating
staff
Date of Application
3 April 2014
Category of Grant (please
tick)
One √
Funds Awarded
$4,000
Funds Spent
$3996
(max $5,000) Two
(max $10,000)
Project Details
Title of Project
Creating video resource to provide step-by-step instruction to scaffold biomechanics learning
Give a brief description of the project (no more than 100 words)
This will be published on the UC website.
The iPad application “Doceri” is a recordable interactive whiteboard, while Camtasia software enables
quick creation of high quality videos. This project involves using Doceri to provide step-by-step video
tutorials to assist students in the Introduction to Biomechanics course to learn to analyse and solve
biomechanical problems, and will use Camtasia to create videos providing distance students with
enhanced in-context experiences. This is a challenging course for most of the PE and Sport Coaching
cohort who make up over 90% of the course; the project will create course-specific resources similar
to those available at Khan Academy to provide self-paced learning experience.
Please comment on the following (indicate N/A where not applicable):
1. The positive impact the outcomes of this
project have had on your teaching and/or
the teaching in your department/school/
area.
This project has led to the development of resources
which will provide asynchronous help to students in the
PE and Sport Coaching biomechanics courses with
step-by-step instructions. This provides huge support
for struggling students and provides self-paced learning
aka Khan Academy.
2. The positive impact the outcomes of this
project have had on student engagement
and student learning at the University.
This will have a very positive effect on student
engagement (though providing support at the time it is
needed) and learning (through step-by-step help) for
the Introduction to Biomechanics courses in semester 1
2015.
3. How you have shared the findings of this
initiative within the wider university
community/nationally/ internationally.
I will give a presentation about this work and its impact
and student feedback at the 2015 Teaching Week.
4. If you plan to sustain/extend this initiative
within the department/school beyond the
finding period and if so, why or why not?
I would like to extend this initiative, however it requires
significant manpower which requires funding which is
not presently available to me.
5. Outline any difficulties or problems you
encountered during the course of the
project/while attending the conference
covered by the grant.
I had to pay $125 from my programme coordinator
funds to access the videos made by my student as he
opted to use an iPad app which it turns out charges
money to share videos in a useful format!
6. Comment on any differences in outcome
of the project/conference from those you
predicted or expected when you applied for
the grant.
Really pleased with the outcomes, pretty much what I
expected to get from the project. Really good
experience in creating tutoring tools for the student
involved, and he has provided tutorials for all my
coursework. We have cut back Biomech teaching
hours from 48 to 36 for 2015 and I feel this has huge
potential to fill some of that gap, and will particularly
provide support for distance students who don’t have
“study mates” to work with and who seem less likely so
far to ask for one-to-one help.
7. Any further comments.
Fantastic student was involved who got a good
experience using technology to provide resources for
teaching. Bit disappointed to get zero funding for
software (I applied for $5K, but was only given the $4K
teaching assistant part) as we could have used a better
product to make the videos. It is very challenging to
have a project funded but no capital items at all –
would suggest in future having a (small/capped) budget
for capital expenditure/software.
(Advice to future grant applicants is
welcome here, as are any suggestions for
the better handling of the application
process or administration of grants.)
Sign off
Date:
Name & Signature: Dr Jenny Clarke
9 Dec 2014