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2012-02-29

week 6 - story telling in organizational learning

We have an experience of having lots of students sit in Financial Management lectures on Wednesday.   Originally, 175 HRM students have enrolled in that lecture, but turns out to have more than 200 students from other streams sitting in the lecture.  The reasons may be the lecturers are popular in lecture explanation and the students would like to fit in their schedule in attending lectures.
This cause the overcrowding  and queueing  problem at the lecture session.   A lot of students not taking the seats have complained to the program leader about the problem.   To solve the problem, we have the suggested solutions as follows:
  1. only registered students can be allowed to attend the lecture;
  2. a card with student name and student no. has been given to every registered student;
  3. a spot check will be carried out randomly during the lecture;
  4. other stream students can only be allowed to sit in the lecture when there are vacant seats available at the lecture hall.
Last but not all, I would like to state my suggestions to solve the issues:-
  1. attendance sheets will be distributed at the lecture hall and make sure the registered students have attended the lectures and not the other stream students.
  2. spot check the attendance of students by asking them questions and review if any other stream students are present at the lecture.
  3. go around the lecture hall and discuss with students during the break of lecture.  This will act as a random check of other stream students who sit in the lectures.

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    1. I've another suggestion - as the lecturer is so popular, may we have the lecture video taped and put online. Then more and more students can learn from the lecturer and they no need to wait in the queue.

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      1. Good idea Alvis... There are products on the market now that allow you to provide screen captures and the presentation slides along with the video of the lecture. At HKBU we use one called Panopto Focus:

        http://www.panopto.com/content/focus

        I have had a chance to try it out a few times to record Library instruction sessions. Lecture capture is one way to help cope with the increasing number of students. If you're interested, you can see what a Panopto recording looks like here:

        http://chtl01.hkbu.edu.hk/Panopto/Pages/Viewer/Default.aspx?id=d3e6f4b4-3f5c-4926-a02a-3b41f66d326b

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      2. Dear Chris Chan,

        Thanks for your suggestion. I will raise out at our finance team meeting and suggest the popular lecturer to read the website link and see if he can improve the over-crowded mass lecture at next semester. Good idea.

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