“Digital Storytelling” in Teaching: Lessons Learned at WUT
“Digital Storytelling” in Teaching: Lessons Learned at WUT

Summary/Abstract: The paper contains reflections on the course "Digital Storytelling" held as transdisciplinary discipline for 2nd and 3rd-year students of the West University of Timisoara (WUT). We started from the ideas that: Through a transversal course, one student enrolled in a faculty of the WUT have the opportunity to attend 3-7 transversal courses offered by the 10 other faculties from the university. By doing this they have the possibility to gather more skills necessary for their academic path, but also for developing new skills that are required in the nowadays interconnected society. Storytelling as a method to teach is accessible, dynamic, and can attract students' interest in deepening their understanding of the subjects taught. If there were a negative review of a teacher and a positive review of the course taught by said teacher, would the student enroll to the course? Would the student need an additional opinion before enrolling to the course? How can one determine whether the next review is positive or negative? And how would that influence one? Thus, we applied an online questionnaire to gain insights from the students enrolled in the “Digital Storytelling” course about the quality of the training, the acquired skills, the utility and the applicability of the course. Based on the questionnaire, we performed a quantitative analysis combined with a sentiment analysis and described the educational challenges encountered during the course. Overall, the students appreciated the Digital Storytelling course as a positive experience.

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