Effectiveness of bite-sized lecture on student learning outcomes

• Main Authors: KOH, Noi Sian, GOTTIPATI, Swapna, SHANKARARAMAN, Venky
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Bite-Sized lecture; mini lecture; short attention span; small learning units; Computer Sciences; Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research; Instructional Media Design
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/4075; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/5078/viewcontent/8027__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Bite-Sized teaching approach uses relatively small learning units with short term focused activities. The paper presents the effectiveness of Bite-Sized lecture pedagogy on learning outcomes for an analytics course offered by the School of Information Technology at Nanyang Polytechnic. The methodology involves breaking a typical 1 hour lecture into 3 to 4 short lectures followed by related tutorial / practical exercises relevant to each respective short lecture. The results from the exercises shows statistically significant improvements in the assessed learning outcomes for the Bite-Sized lecture over the traditional one hour lecture. 75% of the surveyed respondents agreed that the speed of course materials presented in the Bite-Sized lecture was just right. Majority of the respondents agreed or strongly agreed that Bite-Sized lecture helped them to learn better. Although this paper is primarily based on education experiences made within an analytics module, the findings presented are applicable to any other computing related courses or even mathematics related courses in general