JONATHAN BEER

Jonathan Beer, with the help of animator Lauren Ellis, created the YouTube video “Writing Process Animation” while a graduate student in the School of Computer Science at the University of Guelph in Canada. The video was made available to students who were enrolled in his online Computers and Society course. After watching the video, students were asked to self-report on their progress by filling in checklists before and after they had watched the video and completed a blog-writing project. The checklists were then used to determine whether or not the videos were helpful in terms of improving students’ writing processes. Beer used this research in his thesis, “Using Online Video Scribed Animation to Teach Writing Self-Regulation,” which he published in 2012. His research determined that students were able to improve their writing process, especially in terms of goal setting and self-regulation (monitoring progress), after watching his video.

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