In 2017 Allison Marsh joined the team to create the Crash Course History of Science educational video series for YouTube. She then began incorporating these videos into the online version of a popular introductory survey course at the University of South Carolina, “HIST 108: Science and Technology in World History.” During the Summer and Fall terms of 2019, she collected data with the hope of comparing content retention between students who watched Crash Course videos and those who read a traditional textbook. Graduate student Bethany Johnson, a teaching assistant for HIST 108, saw how the students engaged much more dramatically with the videos than with the readings. This case study showed students interacting with the videos in surprising ways and caused Marsh and Johnson to rethink course organization and the pedagogical purposes of a General Education history course.

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速成课程科学史：通识教育的科普？

2017 年，Allison Marsh 加入团队，为 YouTube 创建了速成课程历史科学教育视频系列。然后，她开始将这些视频整合到南卡罗来纳大学流行的介绍性调查课程“HIST 108：世界历史中的科学与技术”的在线版本中。在 2019 年夏季和秋季学期，她收集了数据，希望比较观看速成课程视频的学生和阅读传统教科书的学生之间的内容保留情况。研究生 Bethany Johnson 是 HIST 108 的助教，他看到学生对视频的参与程度比阅读材料的参与程度要高得多。