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Instructional Video Guide

Best practices for creating pedagogically appropriate video

  • Guide
  • Video Types
    • Demonstrate/Show
      • Situation
      • How to do or how someone does a process
      • Apply theory or concept
    • Explain/Tell
      • Concept or theory in a lecture
      • By interviewing an expert
      • Timeline of Events
      • Tour or Field Trip
      • Lesson, Unit, Module Overview/Summary
    • Experience (Immersion)
      • Interactive Simulation
      • Role Play
    • Communicate/ Remediate
      • Provide Feedback
      • Clarify Confusing Information
      • Live Two-Way Q&A Captured for Use Later
      • Summary/Lesson or Unit Review (Dynamic)
    • Introduce/Orient
      • Course, lesson, module or unit
      • Faculty to students
      • Difficult topic
      • Any type of activity
      • Context for course, lesson, module, unit, concept
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Communicate/Remediate

Type Description

This type of video is used to provide individual students or groups with impromptu feedback, clarification, summaries or reviews on assignments and activities.

Sub-Types

  1. Provide feedback – Provide relevant information to current course activities or lessons based on reactions to work or conversations completed by students. Used to help students improve performance on assignments, discussions or tasks.
  2. Clarify confusing information – Identify course content requiring additional instruction and present information in a new way to ensure understanding. Used to help students improve performance by clarifying confusing information.
  3. Live Two-Way Q&A captured for use later – This type of video is impromptu and may include video of just the instructor, the instructor’s whiteboard/tablet/computer, or a combination to answer questions. Used to help students prepare for discussion of difficult or sensitive concepts/topics, provide information communication/clarification on projects or other assessments/activities, etc.
  4. Summary/Lesson or Unit review (dynamic) – A video that gives an overall summary of a subset of a course in response to what has occurred in that course iteration. Used at the end of a lesson to help students internalizes information from the lesson and to refocus on the objective for the lesson.
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