Does video fit your learning goal?

What do you want to achieve? Video is best used for knowledge transfer and repetition of content. Unless you want your students to create a video themselves in the context of an assignment, it will be difficult to use video if you want your students to apply, analyse, evaluate or create information. Video is a means to communicate in a visual way. The information or content needs to be suited for being depicted visually.

• Do you want to stimulate interaction? Then connect an interactive learning activity to your video.
• An educational video does not stand alone, but it is part of an (online) course or teaching programme, so keep this in mind when deciding to create a video. Make sure your video links to your on-campus class or online learning activities.

Sources

Hansch, A., Hillers, L., McConachie, K., Newman, C., Schildhauer, T., & Schmidt, P. (2015). Video and Online Learning: Critical Reflections and Findings from the Field.
Manifesto Videos in Higher Education, Reutemann, J & Centre for Innovation - Leiden University (2018)