Screencasting Academic Staff Autonomy in Digital Fluency Development

Screencasting instructional videos that mainly involve recording a voice over a 'screen walk-through process', are a great aid when it comes to supporting learning and teaching in Higher Education (H.E). Their simple nature that manages to quickly add value in any learning and teaching context has mainly been the reason why its emergence saw many institutions making full use of this 'capturing tool' to provide simple, generic, 'how to' technical guides to students, academic support staff and lecturers. By exploring the various sequences in deploying these short, focused videos, this paper will demonstrate that academic staff can really benefit from mixing and matching instructional videos in a flipped, face-to-face and extended classroom context. The synergies from this holistic approach which deploys a creative amalgam of best practice in a unified approach brings considerable added value in comparison to past dichotomies in implementing, monitoring and following up a techno-pedagogical model of Continuous Professional Development for academic staff. This seems to bypass many problems that derived from previous approaches that showed specific preference for one method.