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A study on:
Can a Blended Learning approach help to overcome new challenges in First Year?
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(Definition of blended learning in this study: A combination of face to face and multimedia learning using CAD video screencasts)
Q1 - Course Choice
What were the main aspects about the course content that attracted you to the BA Interior Design
& Furniture course at DIT?
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Q2 - What were you looking for when choosing this course?
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In the diagram above please circle the eight words which most describe the learning processes you
would use when you are doing any assignment on the course.
Would you describe yourself as a convergent or divergent thinker?
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Awareness of Audience
Communication
Creativity
Humility
Problem Solving
Team Player
Technical Skills
Vision
Q7 Multimedia Learning
In your CAD module in first year you were given post-lecture videos (screencasts) via e-mail to look
at after class.
i. Please write a brief reflection on how you have used them so far in first year.
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ii. Do you refer to the videos often (i.e. at least once a week), sometimes, or never? _____________
iii. Has your opinion changed towards learning Autocad in first year, since the beginning of the
semester, and if so or if not, please say why?
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iv. Place the following in order of how challenging you find each assignment in the first year CAD
module so far, with the most challenging at 1 and the least challenging at 3.
1st Semester: Activities 1 to 16
1st Semester: Survey/sketches/tech. drawing by hand
1st Semester: End of semester cad drawing test
v. Are there other modules in which such multimedia tutorials would help to overcome new
learning challenges, and if so, please say why?
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vi. Do you think video screencasts could be a useful presentation format for your own project work
in first year and beyond?
If so, please say when and why?
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If you have any further comments about the screencasts or the learning processes in the first two
years of the course, please add them here:
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