Production and digital discussion of video presentations by students – a project report

In the summer semester 2020, the module "People in different stages of life" in the Bachelor program "Interprofessional Health Care, B.Sc." had to be adapted to online teaching. The module exam, originally planned as an oral presentation, was presented by the students in interprofessional tandems as a video presentation using case studies. Based on cognitive and social constructivism, all students reflected on these video presentations using the "Think-Pair-Share” method. Similar to regular inverted classroom methods, knowledge transfer through the video presentations was asynchronous and cognitively constructive; accompanying discussion questions of the respective speakers were answered in writing by the fellow students (Think). The students met independently online in small groups on a regular basis to discuss the respective presentations and questions based on personal and professional experiences (Pair; socially constructed). In open online debriefings with the lecturers, the speakers and all interested students, relevant aspects were taken up and discussed again (Share). First experiences showed that the students enjoyed the production of the video presentations and that many of them voluntarily participated in the discussion rounds, in which aspects of health care beyond the presentations were discussed. Considering the experiences made, continuing online teaching in this format may be worthwhile for both lecturers and students.