Enhancing Instruction with Visual Media

One of the benefits of the constantly expanding world of technology is the new and improved technologies that allow students to not only benefit from this integration, but to also come to prefer a more technologically savvy instruction style. Enhancing Instruction with Visual Media: Utilizing Video and Lecture Capture offers unique approaches for integrating visual media into an instructional environment by covering the impact media has on student learning and various visual options to use in the classroom. Professors, researchers, and instructional designers will benefit from the practical applications and suggestions offered through the integration of instructional videos in the learning process.

Ellen Smyth is Austin Peay State University's 2010 Innovative Professor, an honor given by the Center for Extended and Distance Education. In 2011, Ellen received a summer research fellowship for exploratory work in open courseware. She publishes articles with Faculty Focus and has presented an online seminar through Magna Publications on the Nine Essential Traits of the Effective Professor. Ellen has presented conference workshops and information sessions with the Sloan-Consortium, the Teaching Professor, and Wisconsins Distance Teaching and Learning Conference. Ellen enjoys teaching a balance of face-to-face and online statistics courses where video and lecture capturing are her favorite technology tools, naturally.

John X. Volker, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management at Austin Peay (AP) State University and currently is developing the AP Business entrepreneurship program. Dr. Volker earned his Ph.D. in Management from Walden University and also holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from Murray State University. Dr. Volker has been involved in the entrepreneurship sector since 1983 and has worked with many entrepreneurs as a consultant over the years. Dr. Volker has numerous publications in entrepreneurship and maintains a steady research stream. Dr. Volker is committed to merging the liberal arts with the practice of entrepreneurship and unleashing the creativity inherent in each of us.