Pilot Evaluation of the Use of Video Snippets to Support Undergraduate Learners

Abstract This paper evaluates the use of video snippets to support undergraduates learning critical path analysis (a project management technique) in an intermediate level (second year undergraduate) module. The video snippets are made available in a blog that encourages students to evaluate their performance on the task before and after watching the video snippets; the students are also asked to indicate how confident they feel about performing the task at different stages in the exercise. The design, delivery and evaluation the use of video snippets is discussed, and feedback from participants at each of the three stages of deployment is considered. There were twelve participants in the study, four at each stage. The study was carried out at London Metropolitan University.