Video & and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

According to Kathleen McKinney (in her 2007 book, Enhancing Learning Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: The Challenges and Joys of Juggling), SoTL refers to "the systematic reflection or study of teaching and learning made public." One key dimension of this reflection is turning a scientific lens inward on our teaching practices to continuously improve our teaching and student learning. Therefore, given the focus of this website, we have been collecting relevant SoTL articles addressing video use in classroom instruction. We hope that instructors not only find these articles helpful in their own classes but they inspire further contributions to the field. 

Video Use in the Classroom

• Austin, Regina.  2005. “Foreword: Engaging Documentaries Seriously.”  Fordham Intellectual Property Media & Entertainment Law Journal, 16:707-714.

• Cardon, Peter W. 2010. "Using Films to Learn about the Nature of Cross-Cultural Stereotypes in Intercultural Business Communication Courses." Business Communications Quarterly, 73:150-165.

• Champoux, Joseph E. 1999. “Film as a Teaching Resource.” Journal of Management Inquiry, 8 (2):206-218.

• Daniels, Jessie. 2012. "Transforming Student Engagement through Documentary and Critical Media Literacy." Theory in Action, 5 (2).

• DeFronzo, James. 1982. “The Film-Augmented Course on International Social Movements.” Teaching Sociology, 9 (2):169-188.

• Demerath, N. Jay, III. 1981. "Through a Double-Crossed Eye: Sociology and the Movies." Teaching Sociology, 9:69-82.

• Diehl, William, Candace Head-Dylla, Maya Nehme, Jose M. Salazar, and Jinai Sun. 2009.  "Michale Apted's 7UP! Film Series as a Teaching Prompt for Understanding, Collaboration, and New Learning in a Sociology Course Setting."  Teaching Sociology, 37 (4).

• Downey, Eleanor Pepi, Robert L. Jackson, Maria E. Puig, and Rich Furman. 2003. “Perception of Efficacy in the Use of Contemporary Film in Social Work Eduction: An Exploratory Study,” Social Work Education, (22): 4.

• Fails, Eleanor.  1988.  "Teaching Sociological Theory Through Video: The Development of an Experimental Strategy."  Teaching Sociology, 16 (3): 256-62.

• Fee, Anthony and Amanda E.K. Budde-Sung. 2011 "The Link in the Lesson: Using Video to Bridge Theory and Experience in Cross-Cultural Training." In Streaming Media Delivery in Higher Education: Methods and Outcomes, ed. Charles Wankel and J. Sibley Law, 20-38 (2011), accessed January 26, 2013.

• Groce, Stephen B. 1992.  "Teaching Sociology of Popular Music with the Help of Feature Films: A Selected and Annotated Videography." Teaching Sociology 20 (1): 80-84.

• Hannon, James T., and Sam Marullo. 1988. "Education for Survival: Using Films to Teach War as a Social Problem." Teaching Sociology 16:245-255.
  

• Hoover, Sandy.  2006.  "Popular Culture in the Classroom: Using Audio and Video Clips to Enhance Survey Classes." The History Teacher, 39.4: 28 pars. http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/39.4/hoover.html.

• Jarvis, Peter, John Holford, and Colin Griffin. 2004. The Theory and Practice of Learning, 2e, Taylor & Francis.

• Loewen, James W. 1991.  “Teaching Race Relations from Feature Films.” Teaching Sociology, 19 (1):82-86.

• Love, S., H-S. Park, and H. DeBose.  2011. "Moving from knowledge to understanding: YouTube in the classroom." National Social Science Technology Journal, 1 (4).

• Mayer, Richard E. 2001. Multi-Media Learning. New York: Cambridge University Press.

• McGinn, Colin. 2005. The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact. Pantheon Books.

• Miller, Michael V. 2011. "A System for Integrating Online Multimedia into College Curriculum." MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 7 (2). 

• Miller, Michael V. 2009. “Integrating Online Multimedia into College Course and Classroom: With Application to the Social Sciences.”  MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 5 (2).  http://jolt.merlot.org/vol5no2/miller_0609.htm.

• Oblinger, Diana G. and James L. Oblinger. 2005. "Educating the Net Generation." Educause Report,  http://www.educause.edu/educatingthenetgen/.

• Pippert, Timothy D. and Helen A. Moore. 1999. “Multiple Perspectives on Multimedia in the Large Lecture.”  Teaching Sociology, 27:92-109.

• Misra, Joya. 2000. “Integrating “The Real World” into Introduction to Sociology: Making Sociological Concepts Real,” Teaching Sociology. (28) 4:346-363.

• Pescosolido, Bernice A. 1990. “Teaching Medical Sociology through Film: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Tools,” Teaching Sociology. (18):337-346.

• Scherer, Robert F., and Bud Baker. 1999. “Exploring Social Institutions Through the Films of Frederick Wiseman.” Journal of Management Education, 23:143-153.

• Sealey, Kevin S. 2008. Film, Politics, and Education: Cinematic Pedagogy across the Disciplines, Peter Lang Publishing, Inc: New York.

• Simons, Tad. 1998. "Study shows just how much visuals increase persuasiveness." Training, http://www.trainingmag.com/article/study-shows-just-how-much-visuals-increase-persuasiveness. accessed January 26, 2013.

• Smith, Don D. 1977. "Teaching Undergraduate Sociology Through Feature Films." Teaching Sociology, 10:98-101.

• Stein, R. 2011. "Seeing White through Rap: A Classroom Exercise for Examining Race Using a Hip-Hop Video," Journal of Political Science Education 7 (3).

• Stoddard, Jeremy and Alan Marcus. 2005. “Based on a True Story: The Use of Hollywood Film in History Classes.” Wisconsin Journal of the Social Studies, 4 (1):40-46.

• Suber, Howard. 2006. The Power of Film. Michael Wiese Productions.

• Tabachnick, David. 2011. "Wielding the Camera Pen: Teaching Sociology through Filmmaking." Humanity & Society, 35 (February/May):128-148.

• Tipton, Dana Bickford and Kathleen A. Tiemann.  1993.  "Using the Feature Film to Facilitate Sociological Thinking." Teaching Sociology, 21 (2):187-191.

• Tyler, Catherine, Mark Anderson, and J. Michael Tyler.  2009.  "Giving Students New Eyes: The Benefits of Having Students Find Media Clips to Illustrate Management Concepts."  Journal of Management Education, 33 (4):444-461.

• Wynn, Jonathan. 2009.  “Digital Sociology: Emergent Technologies in the Field and the Classroom.”  Sociological Forum, 24 (2):448-456.

Teaching Communities

• Cox, Milton D. 2004. "Introduction to Faculty Learning Communities." New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 97.

• Spalter-Roth, Roberta, Olga Mayorova, Janene Scelza, and Nicole Van Vooren. 2010. "Teaching Alone? Sociology Faculty and the Availability of Social Networks."  American Sociological Association Research Brief, June 2010.