International Journal of Advanced Research and Publications

ISSN: 2456-9992

Micro-Lectures Enhance Student Engagement In

Learning
Bing Li
Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province,
The People‟s Republic of China +8615958589175
20082016@zyufl.edu.cn

Abstract: The traditional, hour-long teaching mode that is so well-known to on-the-ground students has a little spot in a web-based learning
condition. Nonetheless, a shorter and more firmly engaged micro-lecture can help to draw in students and add a media punch to a course.
Psychological science demonstrates that students have a restricted limit concerning learning, as far as the time and preparing various stations
of data, making it essential that course substance is conveyed as compactly as could be allowed (Clark and Mayer, 2008). This research paper
explores the influence of micro-lecture on the learners in the context of China, as shown by these following objectives. Students are
encouraged to learn a vast ocean of knowledge via micro-lecture. Students are expected to arouse learning interest and improve students‟
engagement in classroom activities. Students are expected to expand their learning content and cultivate self-learning habits during the class
session. It brings significant benefits to students, lecturers, and education quality management to keep pace with times in educational reform.

Keywords: Engagement, Micro-lecture, Student learning

1. Introduction 2. Micro-Lectures
Micro-lecture (bits) is primary sight and sound introductions
that are 90 seconds to five minutes in length. They centered 2.1 Technology via Micro-Lecture
around a particular idea or aptitude related to the course's Micro-lectures were brought into formal instructive projects a
learning destinations. Miniaturized scale talks enable students few years back in China. From that point forward, the short
to receive guidance on a specific purpose or ability they have video cut, concentrating on explicit purposes of information,
to rehearse. PowerPoint can be utilized to give the structure of and utilizing best in class configuration, has been made open
the miniaturized scale address bit. Using PowerPoint as the on learning stages and are relevant in the mixed and versatile
structure, teachers can create content for each slide or idea. learning design. An increasing number of college scholastics
PowerPoint can likewise go about as a storyboard for one's have examined and acknowledged the miniaturized scale talk.
content. Scripting gives an approach to arrange considerations The researchers and scholars in China focus mainly on just
and ideas to guarantee that critical ideas are not forgotten two components of miniaturized scale addresses (1) video
about it (Liu & Wang, 2013). The traditional instructing assets, for instance, the advancement of small scale address
model characterizes the study hall as the primary position of assets and the imaginative plan of shorter scale talks and (2)
educating, where the instructors pack grant learning to the use of systems and the proficiency of lower scale address
understudies in the method for aggregate teaching though, assets in instructing (Rees, 1980). In contrast to different
during English perusing instructing. A lot of words and types of instructive assets, miniaturized scale talks coordinate
sentence structure included are hard for understudies to the content, various media segments, and multimodality into
ultimately get a handle on because of the dissipated copious homeroom educating and break the random assemblage of
information. Precisely, in the conventional showing mode, 40 information into progressively extravagant pieces to advance
to 50 minutes‟ study hall instructing substance or yield cannot students‟ advantage and improve their comprehension. Also,
be assimilated and rehashed botches by and by because on account of their bit of leeway of being in little bits,
students try in this way accomplishing no impact and their smaller-scale talks can be effectively transmitted,
learning eagerness are lost (Li, 2016). In comparison with the downloaded, and replayed in an assortment of omnipresent
traditional instructing model, the utilization of learning hardware. The small scale talk introduces the likelihood of
advancements, especially sight and sound, gives new chances changing the learning methods of the net age (Wallace,
to understudies to learn, openings that are unrealistic with 2017).
other media. For instance, the utilization of the World Wide
Web and interactive media PCs (and additionally VCRs) 2.2 Learning Content
empowers studies to view addresses either in PC labs or at Learning content is deliberately designed in integration into
home, while schoolwork assignments should be possible in the teaching video in a short time. The learning bolster
class, in gatherings. The general standard is to give a menu of administration included web-based coaching capacities,
alternatives to the understudies to use in learning (Ling, including learning instruments, synchronous and offbeat
2016). With the widespread application of high-tech web-talks, different orders of training exercises, input from
technology in education, micro-lectures show incomparable friends or the speaker, peer participation, and related learning
advantages in improving teaching quality, which is assets. Divided learning content which deceives student in
considered as the innovation of educational technology. First developing significance can be kept away from.
and foremost, the learners have access to the video of Simultaneously, to limit the hole among formal and casual
micro-lectures without the limitation of time and space, which learning, the learning bolster administration needs to improve
brings convenience to the learners. Also, it is the enrichment the utilization of open devices in synchronous and offbeat
to and expansion of the learning environment, which creates a online correspondence between the speakers and understudies
positive learning atmosphere. (Lee, 2014). Taking in the executives originates from both the

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speaker and online friends. The student participates in the of advanced and online media with some component of
group discussion and builds teamwork with friends, changing student power after some time, spot, way, or pace. While
their learning pace as per their time plans. In contrast to the students are still going to “block-and-cement” schools with an
traditional learning plan, mixing learning gives adaptability to educator present, face-to-face homeroom techniques are
learning time, which improves the administration of education. joined with PC intervened exercises. Besides, learning is
They conceded that, before the appropriation of the utilized in the expert improvement and preparing settings. In
miniaturized scale addresses, they believed that the this way, the development of the learning model exists on the
conventional assets (course books) were „exhausting‟, had „an communication between up close and personal educating and
excessive number of new words‟, were „difficult to internet learning, through constant complete assessment, and
comprehend‟, and „left nothing in their psyches subsequent to bit by bit accomplish the impact of superb instructing and
perusing‟; and they were „frequently diverted‟ and here and learning (Zealand & Americans, 2007). Even though it isn‟t
there couldn‟t locate the reasonable apparatuses or ventures to of great use for the instructor to assume the main job of
learn (Li, 2016). As seen from Figure1, micro-lecture is educators‟ direction, move and screen the showing procedure,
integrated into the learning cycle stressing on it completely mirrors the students‟ drive, eagerness, and
purpose-oriented and active interaction between teachers and inventiveness as the fundamental body of the learning
students in the process of the online and offline learning procedure. Students complete the self-ruling learning in the
environment. system encouraging stage as indicated by the smaller-scale
recordings instructor plan before class and disguise the
information through the investigation and routine with regards
to extend in the classroom. There is no denying that the role of
instructors has transformed into the entire procedure. Another
training model should expand on present-day data innovation,
especially organize the change to guarantee college gaining
free from time and spot confinements, which corporate into
those classes in order to encourage understudies to conduct
independent and individualized learning. An increasing
number of the colleges in Mainland China have taken mixed
media study hall guidance, which joins with the rise of smaller
scale talk brief the rapidly expanding number of miniaturized
scale addresses ( Sweet, 2014). The broadband-associated
World Wide Web enables understudies to acquire knowledge
without any difficulty and viability. Also, the rapid
development of innovations offers scholastics and instructive
establishments new alternatives that empower them to explore
different avenues regarding the most appropriate blend of
instructional methodologies and learning environment. With
the dynamic refreshing of learning assets on a continuous
premise and the help of new sorts of association among
understudies and instructors, the application of advanced
technology into the classroom teaching has beaten two of the
difficulties in customary separation training ( Cai & Li, 2015).
Meanwhile, this makes a brand-new learning domain and
produces an assignment situation or targets which rouse
learners‟ thinking. Through the video cuts, the foundation of
Figure 1: The integration of micro-lecture into learning learning can be made which gives dynamic models to pretend.
cycle Inside a ceaseless timeframe, the understudies are required to
collaborate, bring up issues, and look for answers for them by
With the smaller scale talks incorporated into the course, utilizing video. This sort is planned to enable the student to
learning ended up engaging, connecting with, and fun. direct profound learning and upgrade their ability for the
Micro-lecture depends on information-oriented, and video request(Cao, 2017). It can be proved by Lewin‟s Equation,
teaching could direct them to rehear, and the screen assists which analyzes the relation between behavior and
them with finding the particular area of the information point environment. Behavior (B) is “a function (F) of the person (P)
rapidly. In their opinion, these smaller-scale talks could help and of his environment (E), B = F (P, E)” (Lewin, 1946, p.
them to make full use of their available time to study without 791). This formula indicates that behavior depends on the
needing a square of time for planning (Lee, 2014). Learning person and his or her environment.
content is demonstrated dynamically for the purpose of
effective learning, which also makes changes to the learning 2.4 Student Engagement
environment. About the instructional structure of “smaller scale address”:
Whether a “miniaturized scale address” can accomplish the
2.3 Learning Environment typical point or not relies upon the instructional plan. The
In the traditional methodology, the guidance is given in the training technique of this class, for the most part, centers on
homeroom. At present, learning is a formal training program, the presentation of this new exercise, the teacher‟s educating
in which a student learns at any rate to a limited extent and the synopsis of the lesson, three angles. The educator in
through the conveyance of substance and guidance by means this part is very mindful so as to utilize four trials in the

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introduction. Nonetheless, “small scale address” doesn‟t 3. Conclusion

permit adequate time contrasted and the customary class. It is The reason for the utilization of micro-lectures is to improve
required to abbreviate the season of the opening, so one teaching quality and serve students learning. It also helps to
examination is selected as the presentation of the new accomplishes students' independent learning, and
exercise. The test is that a cup is secured with cardboard with teachers‟ individualized educating, and it likewise inspires
all the freshen up and loaded with water. At that point, students‟ enthusiasm for learning and advances teachers‟
students are required to think about what will occur after proficient operation in high technology. As a result, the
transforming it. After each student wraps up, the instructor majority of the instructors show a keen interest in the
will make the move and demonstrate the marvel that the advancement of the miniaturized scale lesson, and the
cardboard won‟t drop and the water won‟t spill (Ying, 2016). educators grow superb smaller scale address
The vivid and short teaching content on this experiment will assets that depend on improving their training level. On the
leave the learners deep impression on knowledge points, and other hand, it is of considerable significance for students to
it encourages the students to lead to deep thinking. At present, direct self-governing learning by applying the miniaturized
a great number of educators have applied micro-lecture to scale address. After students see a micro-lecture, it stimulates
their classroom instructing, as far as them this smaller scale students‟ interest in exchanging ideas. Two inquiries
talk resembles their very own showing shadow and regarding propose with regards to the substance of the micro-lecture.
students whose instructors, thusly, become their learning One research lies in the physical institution that may be
shadow. In the meantime, the utilization of miniaturized scale replaced by massive online teaching. Another question exists
talk diminishes teachers‟ trouble in exercise arrangement and the self-learning on miniaturized lecture hinders the
study hall instructing, and instructors will invest more energy interpersonal relationship; even reduce the chance of human
taking an interest in students‟ learning, and this can likewise communication. Admittedly, the new teaching modes,
limit the separation among educators and understudies. At the micro-lectures, have fundamentally transformed the
point when the issues found in the shadow video during the traditional pattern. The educators make the best use of its
showing procedure, educators can quickly suspend and merits such as its mobility, and cyclic utilization; however, its
address the problem in time. Furthermore, educators can weakness cannot be ignored like over-dependence on the
initiate the students to derive different things from one truth. electronic devices and less face-to-face communication
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Author Profile
Bing Li received the B.A. in Applied English in
Fujian Normal University of Fujian in 2005 and
M.A. degrees in TESOL in De La Salle
University(DLSU) in 2008. During 2005-2008, I
took a teaching job in Chiang Kai Shek College
and did in-depth research on how the students acquired the
foreign language and switched the language code flexibly in
different contexts. I now work at Zhejiang Yuexiu University
of Foreign Languages.

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