Zac Woolfitt
Researcher/Lecturer, Inholland University of Applied Science, The Netherlands
Zac Woolfitt is a lecturer and researcher at Inholland University in the Netherlands. With a background in tourism where he worked in North America for ten years, he is now based near Amsterdam.
Since 2010 he has been conducting research into the effective use of video in higher education. His research has examined challenges teaching staff face when transitioning from face-to-face, to teaching via video (from 3d to 2d). Using a variety of technologies, he has recorded over 100 web lectures that are used when ‘flipping’ the classroom in an interactive, dynamic and blended learning environment.
His current research focus examines how educatoinal organisatoins are formally and informally shifting into the hybrid classroom. In the hybrid classroom, education is delivered face-to-face and online. Students are in the classroom, and also join online. Formally (through school arranged technology), or informally (via student smartphones and student laptops). What challenges does this pose to the educator and students? What is needed in order to faciltate this transition into this educational format?
Articles on this subject and more are outlined on the 'Video Teaching' Blog: http://zacwoolfitt.blogspot.nl/