When asked to rate the online video experience, 94% of students found that implemented videos are useful and beneficial. In addition 94.8% of students would recommend the addition of video transcripts on university websites.
The main purpose of video transcripts in education is to enable and increase student engagement especially amongst disabled students. Verbit’s proprietary technology has been fine-tuned and altered in order to focus on the specific individual needs of education field. This includes transcriptions and closed captions which must be as accurate as possible due to the fact that they are critical for learning.
Online learning and studying remotely is becoming increasingly popular as students can now learn and access information at their convenience. The sample was an accurate demonstration of how students now aim to learn online. It was interesting to compare and contrast the preference of multi-modal learning to structured traditional learning behaviors. Hopefully, more educational institutions will embody online learning strategies and make use of time synchronized transcription solutions.
University students are happy with the useful benefits Verbit has provided with online video transcripts and research has identified some of the keys reasons why students use online videos. They are as follows:
Flexibility
Research has shown that students enjoy online transcribed videos because they can move at their own pace which positively impacts the learning process. In many cases, the ability to work at a faster pace due to transcripts has meant that they are able to complete tasks in a more timely manner using features such as searching for keywords and being able to jump to specific subjects. Just as we all have the ability have everything searchable at our fingertips, the same ability should and is being allocated to students with educational content.
A respondent stated that, “its now easier to search for particular content in the video. No more manual sliding”.
Creating Study Guides
Another benefit includes having the ability to create study guides. A simple plugin will enable students to print or download a transcription. Some content which might be downloaded include lecture notes, flash cards, course study guides, power point presentations, and text book drafts.
Understanding English as a Second Language
When learning a new or second language, multi sensory learning is always the preferred method. Studies show that when people trying to recall or learn something strictly via memory, they respond better and retain more information when using multi sensory formats rather than just visual formats alone. Multi sensory formats provide users and learners the opportunity to understand English via text.
Analyzing research raises the question of how online interactive videos will further benefit educational institutions. As we delve deeper and deeper into a world where are lives are influenced by modern technology, online learning will only become more and more relevant and required. This evidently means that universities will need to keep their technology systems up to date in order to maintain the cost effective implementation of user controlled and user friendly interfaces.
When using interactive transcribed video, the basis of the learning experience is having the ability to click where and when needed, rewind, skip, skim, pause, highlight, download, print, and much more. This is one of the most important advantages within the transcription market and precisely why students are utilizing these interactive transcription functionalities made available by Verbit.