Global Learning Development Center. TOMP

The use of micro-video-blogging has considerable potential for use in higher education. It provides practitioners with a flexible platform through which to enhance traditional face-to- face learning and teaching, in a way that compliments the technical competencies and learning needs of a wide spectrum of students. One of the particular benefits of “micro” video-blogging is the ability to efficiently disseminate concentrated areas of knowledge to students - which can be viewed on a variety of static or mobile devices - making them useful for part-time and professional students for whom higher education is not their only demand. Despite this, the ability to challenge traditional conceptions of space in higher education by hosting episodes of these micro-video-blogs in diverse locations, makes their use attractive and enticing to all students. Accordingly, the author of this paper is a firm advocate of their use and encourages higher education practitioners to consider how the principle of micro- video-blogging might be tailored and applied to the needs of their own subject areas and students.