Strategies in university teachers training: an experience of video recording in the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia

The video recording technique is considered an important and effective strategy to improve university teaching in novel lecturers. This technique allows to analyze and to evaluate the performance of lecturers in their classroom thus improving their teaching skills and contributing to their professional training. In this work, an experience of video recording in more than 200 lecturers of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia is reported. It is investigated how video recording helps to identify problems, to analyze the diction and the structure of the lecture and, which is more important, how the lecturer may observe its own action and the perception that students have of him. Furthermore, the common features and implications that were observed in the carried out video recordings are described and discussed.