The Effectiveness of Streaming Media Clips in Skills Teaching: A Comparative Study

Skills Teaching

There is little written regarding teaching practical skills to large class sizes in higher education, much of the literature on the teaching of large numbers of students seeks to address the problems associated with teaching theoretical topics within a lecture or seminar setting. Although splitting the larger lecture or seminar class into groups, for small group discussions or solving problems, as seen in Frederick (1987) is commonly advocated, this strategy would not support teaching of the practical or technical areas covered within the Fashion Design course. The main problem in the teaching of this material is the effect of group size on the students’ ability to understand the subject matter being demonstrated.